Yeah, they did basically scour their existing content, index it and so on
but, the CD definitely allowed you to perform dynamic searches, highlighted
by relevance, etc. I think that's what most people really want when they ask
"is their an 'embedded' CF?". It would be nice, of course, to have the full
functionality but, as the original poster stated, he just wants to be able
to do searches. Do you happen to know how WinNTMag was doing this? I know it
came down to one DLL, I forget the name, but, as I said earlier, no one
would/could give me any further information.
The system I'm working on now will potentially provide full CF functionality
from/on a CD. It's far from completely working but, the fundamentals are
there.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: [OT: Run a data driven site from a CD using CF?]
> On a side note, Windows NT/2000 Magazine publishes an archive
> CD of their magazine a couple of times a year. Up until a couple
> of years ago all the content had a .cfm extension and allowed
> dynamic searches on the content contained on the CD. This was
> possible even if no network connection existed. My presumption
> at the time was they had figured out a way to locally execute
> CFML but, despite queries to Allaire, Windows NT/2000 Mag,
> and this list, no one could/would give me an answer as to how
> this was accomplished, if at all. The CD now uses different
> technology so I don't have anything to experiment with. Maybe
> you could find more information than I was able to.
If I recall correctly, the WinNT Mag Archive CD was created using a
third-party "web-scouring" product, which would save files to the disk with
their original extensions. They've been longtime CF users, so their site
content was provided with CF. They switched to a MS HTML Help format (which
I like better, personally).
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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