In article <41256550.0053A57C.00(at)stfo-lnsmtp.statoil.no>, you wrote:
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> I downloaded the whole Alpine Archive and it contains LOT of information!
> Hovever, it also cantains a lot of unnecessary text connected to the
> database storage and the file transfer making the files difficult to read.
> Anybody who has written some kind of algoritm or knows how to filtrate such
> unuseful text, or do I have to do it the "hard" way by manually deleting
> it?
> If so, could I possibly have a copy, or maybe a copy of the archives as
> "clean text"?
> Any way to sort the content of the files?
> I visited Jeromies Sunbeam Page, however I have no longer access to the
> web. I think he is a computerfreak and thought maybe he had made something
> - I read that he had downloaded the archives too.
Over August-October I retrieved the Archives by e-mail and read everything
but chit-chat and Car For Sale posts. I used a text-based threaded
newsreader (YARN), and some natural and acquired gifts for reading and
gathering data. I read the Archives as someone who knew little about
Alpines, expected to do everything to his car, and wanted to know it
all. I have about 800k of saved items (in 22 categories), unstripped,
that I plan to organize for my Guides pages (pretty soon now, since the
Tomato is starting to come apart).
BTW, just by coincidence I downloaded the AltaVista Personal search
engine. Basically http://www.altavista.com on your Windows95/NT
desktop. It indexes files (in a pile of formats) on your hard-disk,
network drives, browser caches, news, mail and the Web and lets you use
Netscape or the MS IExplorer to search files and display the results.
*** And IT'S FREE! *** This is maybe the first of about a dozen indexers
I've tried over the years that I will keep installed and use, partly
because the online AltaVista is still the best engine. I just did a
search on "Alpine" and AVP found 90 documents, some by looking in my
Netscape cache and the rest from my on-disk JSP pages.
So, if you have the Archives as a bunch of text files, this would be a
good tool. Don't even think about trying to read everything as plain
text. At an average of 200+ messages per month over 36 months you'd
spend quite a while on the PgDn key instead of wrenches.
--- J e r o m e Y u z y k | jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca - - BRIDGE Scientific Services | www.tgx.com/bridge - - Sunbeam Alpine Series II #9118636 | www.tgx.com/bridge/sunbeam -
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