Re: Searching the archives

Tim Jones wrote:
> May be a a bit of a challenge  given their format, but I'm sure
> somewhere there is a program to search compressed
> text files? Wiring it up with a GCI / script interface will
> be a bit more probematical . IIRC Java 1.1 has built in
> support for zip files so a search applet should be easy
> and probably already exists??
> 
> Java dudes?
> anyone?
> 
> tim jones

I guess I should answer this, since I think you're talking about my
archive
site.  (8-)  (I missed the original question; I guess I should look it
up in the archives.  (8-) )

Anywas:  my ISP at home won't let me use cgi scripts; it's a security
hole they don't want to deal with.  Personally, I don't blame them; the
fairly recent F00F bug is just the most recent in a bunch of headaches
you
can get if you allow even restricted CGI script access.

I compress the files mainly in interests of my disk quota.  This way, I
can
put the entire thing on-line, and people can download at will.	

I guess the question is now:  how badly do people want a search engine? 
If
demand is bad enough, I can try talking my ISP into an exception.  Or I
can
come up with an auto-index page for the last month worth of 
archives (I'm assuming that most people just use the last month worth of
archives.)

I'm also toying with the idea of getting a cable modem, and being net
accessible 24 hours a day.  But this is a long range solution; it won't 
be for six months, if then.

Finally, somebody who has completely free access to the Net (or is a 
SysAdmin, which amounts to the same thing (8-) ), could setup some of
the
auto-archiving products out there.  I can't, unfortunately; I have
dial-up
access at home, and I sit behind a rather behemoth firewall at work.

So, I guess this is the archives review, where you get to hack me to
shreds.
(8-)

Thanks,
J.

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