[2775] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
WEB: FTP: more hobbes changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu)
Sat Apr 12 13:48:46 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 12 Apr 1997 03:50:18 GMT
From: archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu
Reply-To: archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu
Reply-to: archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu
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I have just changed the formats of the 00*.txt files on HOBBES. Now the four
00*.txt files are as such:
00index.txt Index with descriptions and dates, sorted by name
00indexd.txt Index with descriptions and dates, sorted by date
00global.txt Index with descriptions and dates, sorted by name, recursive
00globald.txt Index with descriptions and dates, sorted by date, recursive
There was a bit of a demand for having a 'sorted by date' option in both FTP
and the search engine/browser, and there was no purpose in having a 00*.txt
file specifically without file dates in it, especially from the web end of
things (where we are still trying to get people to go). Additionally, instead
of adding two or four more 00*.txt files for sorted by date, hence doubling
the database size, I, as well as everyone else involved, felt it preferable to
simply do away with the dateless 00*.txt files.
I'd like to see the *ahem* other site have such a powerful interface, by the
way. :) (They don't even have a *simple* search engine... and look at their
file structure. Yuck! :)
--
Joshua Shagam, Hobbes OS/2 Archive Maintainer
archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
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