Wow
man that's pretty cool! :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Obermesik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 3:43 AM
To: fusebox@topica. com (E-mail)
Subject: Do you want to search the archives?Like most of you it's been frustrating for me not to be able to search the Topica archives for answers to my questions. I think this limitation is preventing a lot of CF/FB newbies like me from progressing as fast as they would like to.I was ready to try my first FB3 app when I saw the post for Nando's Topica Spider and I thought it would be a great test to see what I've learned so far. After successfully setting up the spider and downloading the messages from the Fusebox lists I wanted more flexibility searching the data.Since I'm not as proficient in CF as I want to be I wasn't able to design what I needed in a reasonable amount of time so I tried some alternatives. I ended up with an Access database that did the trick. Now I can search and sort the records in the archives with ease. It has really helped me out a lot so I thought I would make it available to all of you.If you want some more info I've posted a Word document with some screen captures and instructions so you can see what it's all about before committing to a 15 meg download. If you want to jump right in you can download the Fusebox Archive Browser zip file here. The files must be extracted into a directory named "C:\fuseboxarchive" to function properly.From what I've heard there will be a new list in the future that will give us the functionality we want so this wasn't designed to be a permanent solution to the problem but for now it works fine.I hope someone finds this useful as I have learned a lot from you all and I would like to give something back. Considering my limited abilities at present this is the best I can do.Larry
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