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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Non-interactive ftp
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From the keyboard of russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u):
:BTW Does anybody archive *all* the code that is posted to this group?

Barring news glitches, I have every article posted except for a few
in the beginning.  So does Larry, I believe.  But they aren't in 
any decent retrieval system (I use MH, but it's far too slow for 
complex retrievals.)  From the FAQ:

5)  Are archives of comp.lang.perl available?

    Yes, although they're poorly organized.  You can get them from
    the host betwixt.cs.caltech.edu (131.215.128.4) in the directory  
    /pub/comp.lang.perl.  Perhaps by next month you'll be able to 
    get them from uunet as well.  It contains these things:

    comp.lang.perl.tar.Z  -- the 5M tarchive in MH/news format
    archives/             -- the unpacked 5M tarchive
    unviewed/             -- new comp.lang.perl messages since 4-Feb or 5-Feb.

    These are currently stored in news- or MH-style format; there are
    subdirectories named things like "arrays", "programs", "taint", and
    "emacs".  Unfortunately, only the first ~1600 or so messages have been
    so categorized, and we're now up to almost 5000.  Furthermore, even
    this categorization was haphazardly done and contains errors.

    A more sophisticated query and retrieval mechanism is desirable.
    Preferably one that allows you to retrieve article using a fast-access
    indices, keyed on at least author, date, subject, thread (as in "trn")
    and probably keywords.  Right now, the MH pick command works for this,
    but it is very slow to select on 5000 articles.

    If you're serious about this, your best bet is probably to retrieve
    the compressed tarchive and play with what you get.  Any suggestions
    how to better sort this all out are extremely welcome.


--tom
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