I agree, but even accessing and searching through 400MB of ASCII, even well
organized ASCII files, can be time consuming.  Databases were born for this
purpose.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Stan Wilder
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:47 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information

I think 2.1 GB of that can be discarded as repetitious, not accurate,
useless and just trivia.

Stan Wilder
On Fri, 23 May 2003 11:26:22 -0700 Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
writes:
> With the amount of information that's been mentioned (2.5GB++), I
> have
> doubts that a non database-based solution would be efficient or
> practical.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On
> Behalf
> Of Paul Retherford
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 9:00 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information
>
>
> I like the ideas mentioned previously:
>
> 1) organize the information per Bentley
> 2) Let those list members with demonstrated experience
> volunteer/moderate for various sections.  I think in some cases
> there
> will be an "accepted way" and in other cases we can list the
> accepted
> way as well as "alternatives" for getting a job done.  List members
> can
> decide (like we always do) whose advice we trust.
> 3) make it dynamic with minimal administration
>
>  From a technical perspective I would recommend TWiki, a Perl based
> system that let's you dynamically add content to any page using only
> a
> web browser.  You can upload images and/or files from your desktop
> computer (again using only a web browser).  The system
> automatically
> tracks changes to pages (using RCS version control for you techie's)
> so
> if someone "messes up" a section the administrator can easily revert
> to
> the correct version.  We use it for documentation here at work.
>
> It doesn't use a database, nor any special modules (java or
> otherwise)
> so you only need Apache and Perl to run it.
>
> I do database programming for a living and I just don't think most
> of
> us have the time to build a project of this scope.  TWiki requires
> no
> programming and the administration could be shared among the list.
> We
> would want to use authentication so that only list members were able
> to
> edit pages.  I can ask my employer about hosting it.  You can see an
> example at:
>
> http://ki.earlham.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
> or
> http://www.twiki.org
>
> Paul
> '89 Westfalia
>
>

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