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Subject: Re: CCC archive forum: PGN moved to attachments

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 14:18:27 12/18/05

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On December 18, 2005 at 16:55:24, Dadi Jonsson wrote:

>I have created around 1600 PGN-files from games found in CCC posts from 1997
>until now and turned them into attachments to the original posts.
>
>The total number of games in the PGN-files is probably close to 30.000. Only
>games that were found at the end of a post were moved to an attachment. So, a
>signature or even a single "Enjoy!" as the last line of a message would cause
>that post to be skipped. The only exception was that I removed any quotes from
>previous messages from the bottom of each post before further processing.
>
>The search for valid games was rather strict and games with even some of the
>most common mistakes, or deviations from the PGN standard, were skipped. The
>search started at the end of the message and stopped when no more games or an
>invalid game was found. An attachment for a post was only created if more than
>5valid games were found.
>
>The biggest number of games found in a single post was 333 and the size of that
>PGN-file is over 1.5MB. The total size of all the PGN-files is over 70MB.
>
>All games were tested for valid moves and reformatted to conform better to the
>PGN standard. Still, there are bound to be some errors. If errors are found or
>the parsing of the messages is improved the process of generating the
>attachments can be repeated.
>
>Here is an example of an attachment:
>
>http://hornid.com/cgi-bin/ccc/topic_show.pl?tid=64209
>
>Users who log into the forum can view a list of all the attachments. The link to
>the forum is:
>
>http://hornid.com/cgi-bin/ccc/forum.pl


Thanks for all your free service!

Regards,
Guenther



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