[Coco] Anybody willing to put Delphi Msgs on the Web?

[Dean Leiber]

Hi Stephen,

Well I can see you've put alot of thought into this (alot more than I 
have.) Frankly I doubt that someone will put in the amount of time 
required to put it in a searchable database, etc, etc. I'm basically 
shooting for something a little less ambitious myself. I'd settle for 
organizing the files into some form that some kind of basic message 
reader (or even some kind of pearl, shell or javascript ) which would let 
you simply read the messages. Maybe allowing you to look at messages by 
month/year....something of that order. Perhaps once they're organized, 
they could be dropped into the DB du jour for searching, etc. If you do 
some kind of basic message reader, it could be expanded with more 
features if people were really interested. Of course, just dropping the 
messages into a Word Processor would also work! Not optimal, but better 
than nothing. Since it is most likely I won't be arranging the files, its 
basically up to the people running with it to decide. 'Don't look a gift 
horse in the mouth' and all that other folk wisdom...


>
>The problems lie elsewhere.
>
>The first problem is determining that there are sufficient CoCoer's
>interested in using the product to warrant the large amount of work and disk
>storage space needed. I remain unconvinced.
>
>If persons wish to have this project done then a truthful description of
>what they have searched for in the past and how they did it needs to be
>posted.
>
>The second is coming up with a product format that sufficient numbers of
>CoCoer's can use. Due to the volume of data involved most searches on the
>raw data would take way too long. They would only be possible if Paradox
>were used, or some other very powerful data base manager which few CoCoer's
>have available.