Author: Thomas Knoles
Date: 15:18:43 10/19/99
As a devoted lurker on this list, I sometimes want to read something again that I saw weeks or months earlier. It's a great service to have all of the archives available for download, but I wonder if anyone has a suggestion for a convenient way to search through older messages. The problem is that each message is saved as a separate text file in the archive. On my computer at least, it is a s-l-o-w process to unzip even one month's worth of files (the September archive alone contains about 4400 files), search through them (I use TextPad, which works well for this) and delete them. The problem came home to me over the weekend when I tried to find the discussion of possible problems with the Fritz 5.32 October patch. I found what I was looking for, but had a terrific mess in the meantime. How do the rest of you handle this? Or do you ever look for messages you didn't save in the first place? I'd thought about using the DOS "copy" command with a + sign and wildcards to join all of the files in a monthly archive together into a 3-4 MB file that would be easily searchable, but I don't think there's a way to join them in chronological or filename order. Does anyone know of a program that will do this, or that will search zip files for text and display the context, as TextPad will with .txt files? Thanks for any suggestions. Tom Knoles
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