Searching Archive

[babynick34]

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No: HPFGUIDX C7312
From: babynick34
Subject: Searching Archive
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7302] Re: AmericanWizardSchools(wasOxfordagain
Date: 8/19/00 6:29 pm  (ET)

Hi All

>Smitster1 has put the postings from 0 to 6000-something into flat files
that can be downloaded from http://members.xoom.com/hpfg/ for purposes
of searching for a character string.


Well worth the download time... though the first file does really need
to be split to make it manageable.

> I don't want to download those big files so I look at the archive
on-line even tho' it doesn't have a search function (g'rrr).

Well... been thinking about this. One slow and painful way is to enter
in each message in to Phorum - For an example of this, I've put messages
1 to 50 in to Phorum at: http://www.rainbowplay.co.uk/phorum/

You can then use the search function to look things up.

Not a great soluition, but perhaps some of the code that runs Phorum
can be used to search an on-line archive of posts.

With the Yahoo Egroups merger... with luck, Yahoo may add a search
function.

Nick.