Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 15:27:20 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 18:18:43, Thomas Knoles wrote:
>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
Hi Tom,
I use the "CCC Database Navigator v1.2". You will find it at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/9925/cchess.htm
Alessandro
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