Not that I know of. Goggle's bot only crawls webservers. That's where the "painless" part comes in -- just copy the directory structure to a webserver that gets crawled now, FTP all of the .txt files over, create a script that will create an index page for each directory and voila -- searchable patch descriptions. Than all you need to do is setup a process to FTP the new txt files every so often.
Of course, if these files were just copied to a public webserver the same time they were put on the FTP server.... Better yet, just have a public webserver that can mount the FTP directories as a remote directory then we can get everything via HTTP instead of FTP, and the search engines can crawl all they wish. At 05:01 PM 6/17/2006, Nancy wrote: >The descriptions for the last few years of patches are in txt format on the >ftp.va.gov/vista site and all of the patches are available by purchasing the >FOIA CDs (or maybe DVDs). Can one get google to search an ftp site? > >On Saturday 17 June 2006 15:50, Dan wrote: >Anyone know if the VistA patch descriptions are available via the web and >thus are being indexed by the search engines? > >If you've ever needed to find that new API sent out by patch XYZ having a >searchable index would be helpful. Should be relatively painless to > implement. _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
