[TheForge] searchable theforge archive revisited

[Steve Smith]

Terry, this sounds really fine.

Someone you may be able to get older archives from is Franklyn Garland. 
I haven't corresponded with him in awhile, but it seems like he had a 
complete archive of the wugate stuff and maybe some after that.

Here's his site:
http://www.elektricanvil.net/general/authors.html

He is a very reasonable person, you can probably just write him. If 
you'd like I'll be happy to write him.

Steve


terry l. ridder wrote:

> hello;
> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Frederick Faller wrote:
> 
> frederick> 
> frederick> Terry,
> frederick> 
> frederick> Are you doing this all by hand?
> frederick> 
> 
> well no. i am using perl scripts.
> 
> frederick> 
> frederick> Which archive files (i.e. how far back) are you doing?
> frederick>    Just the files from qth.net?
> frederick>    Including the ones from the very beginning on the
> frederick> old system?
> frederick> 
> 
> i would like to start at the very beginning.
> if you have archives before qth.net they are probably better than
> the archives i have. i am missing all of 1997 and most of 1998.
> 
> frederick> 
> frederick> I have a program that I wrote that takes the original
> frederick> files and does an auto cleanup and puts them in a
> frederick> quick searchable format. If we could compile an entire
> frederick> archive and make it so it could easily be updated, it
> frederick> would all fit on a single CD and we could add this
> frederick> search program to make it usable. The search program
> frederick> allows boolean searches (i.e. search for "bolts" +
> frederick> "square head" but not "New York")
> frederick> 
> 
> my goal is to have the searchable theforge archive be operating
> system independant. should run under linux, macosx, and ms windows.
> to meet that goal any programs used to create, maintain, and search the
> archive must be available under linux, macosx, and ms windows. the least
> common denominator is perl, mysql ( relational databse ), and apache
> ( httpd, web server ).
> 
> frederick> 
> frederick> Let me know how I can help.
> frederick> 
> 
> giving me access to your archives would be a big help.
> 
> frederick> 
> frederick> Frederick Faller 
> frederick> 
>