I¹m afraid my Mac wouldn¹t know what to do with all of that. I was hoping for something that reads the text as is and displays it similar to an email program like Outlook. The other problem was that the back-up info was filed by months. Hence, a global search wasn¹t possible. One had to search all months to find the entire info. Not very practical. In addition, I like to have it all on one CD and not on a remote server. People turn these things on and off at will, and I can¹t be sure it¹s available when I need or want it. Maybe, a database in html format would work, but I don¹t know enough about these things to make it work. Regards Ralph W. Lambrecht On 03/28/2005 13:14, "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> I remember several people trying to make a database out of the old list. >> Therefore, I believe several back-up copies exists, but I never heard of the >> final outcome of their efforts. Nevertheless, just before the old list went >> down, I made a full back-up on CD. My problem was that it was a string of >> text that I know little to do with. A searchable database would help. If > > I've long offered a license for my software--- a very fast and powerfull > fielded > (even allows for one to search for words in the same line, sentence or > paragraph) fulltext S/R engine--- for this purpose but did not find much > interest--- it runs under Solaris/SPARC, Linux(32-bit) and shall shortly be > released for freeBSD 64-bit AMD--- and even some (misplaced) concern about > content rights. I had a service running for a short while on one of my > machines > but I did not notice anyone (other than myself) really using it. > > If there is real interest this time I can relaunch a service. > >> someone has the talent to turn the text into a database, I¹m happy to share >> my back-up copy in exchange. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.