I have the capability to create a run-time database that would work on PCs = and Macs... but my problem has been taking the back up copy of the database= and getting it to import into fields... anybody who can parse out the arch= ive so it can go into fields then I can create a searchable database that e= verybody can download. --Matt -- joe suburbs the post modern hyper rural sub urban anti hero and vertiginous= surrealist=20 On Monday, March 28, 2005, at 05:14AM, Edward C. Zimmermann <edz@xxxxxxx> w= rote: >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 w= ent >> down, I made a full back-up on CD. My problem was that it was a string o= f >> 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 f= ielded >(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 b= e >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 mac= hines >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, I=B9m happy to = share >> my back-up copy in exchange. > >--=20 >Edward C. Zimmermann, Basis Systeme netzwerk, Munich > > >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your a= ccount (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed= ,) and unsubscribe from there. > > -- joe suburbs the post modern hyper rural sub urban anti hero and vertiginous= surrealist ============================================================================================================= 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.