a correction to Jerome's post. the address for the altavista search
software is http://www.altavista.digital.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerome Yuzyk <jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca>
To: KE9922(at)statoil.no <KE9922(at)statoil.no>
Cc: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, November 15, 1997 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Alpine Archive
>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.
>
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