RE: Do you want to search the archives?

[billyc]

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Haha  - indeed.  Went to the list’s page on Topica, did a search for “fusebox”, and “Sorry, nothing found for: fusebox” was the result.   --- Billy Cravens   -----Original Message----- From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Do you want to search the archives?   Thanks Larry - this is really cool. I just went to search for something at Topica and it seems they have *completely* removed the ability to search lists - I know it didn't work very well before but it *was* there at least. Looking forward to the NNTP/Fuseware thing if it ever gets set up - but this plus Nando's spider is a pretty good stopgap before then.   K. -----Original Message----- From: Larry Obermesik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 7 April 2002 3:43 PM 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 ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bWapvg Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================ ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================