Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 17:19:04 +0900 From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp> To: djgpp-announce AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Searchable DJGPP mailing list archive at Yaseppochi-gumi It's here! Thanks to the request of Eli Zaretskii, I have put together a CGI search engine for the archives I am maintaining. If you have a ISINDEX-capable WWW browser (including Mosaic and Netscape for sure; I imagine all the recent ones can do this), you can search the DJGPP archives for 1994 via the URL http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/#djgpp and select the search link from the bulleted list of services. Sorry, there is no plan for an FTP search engine at this time. If you know of a public domain Linux FTPD which implements such capacity, please let me know. I would be willing to install such. (I am planning to reorganize my server; this URL may go away, in which case it will probably become http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/djgpp.html and of course there will be a pointer from http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ which is Yaseppochi-gumi's home page.) Please note that this service is still very crude and experimental. Improvements, including a forms-based interface, are planned. This will allow you to set the amount of context returned, and so on. I may also add a better search engine, which would allow you to request that headers (eg, the "From:" header) be prepended. I will definitely add documentation on good search strategies. One caveat: to speed up searches, I have stripped duplicate headers generated by RMail and nuisance headers (such as "Reply-to:" and "Received:") from the archives. However, the reduction in size of the *.gz files is suspiciously large, and I suspect that useful content is somehow being removed as well. Therefore, for the moment I am maintaining two sets of files, *.gz and *.stripped.gz, until I can check how much is being lost. I still recommend getting the stripped archives, but if it seems clear that useful content has been stripped, please let me know! Many thanks to Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> for his encouragement in this project and testing the hypertext link, and to Takoyaki Software's Dylan Cuthbert <dylan AT takoyaki DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> for doing it first. If he can do it, I can do it! Please, please, please! Send lots of comments or suggestions for improving this service to: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stephen Turnbull | | Email: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp | | | | Founder and CEO, Yaseppochi-gumi == Skinny Boy Associates | | Mechanism Design and Social Engineering | | REAL solutions to REAL problems of REAL people in REAL time! REALLY. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+