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Subject:Re: Vanagon archives size (CD Format ideas)
From:coyote
Date:Wed, 8 Apr 1998 07:43:53 -0700

>91MB is easily fitable on a CD-ROM (CD = 650MB) and with my 2X write CD-R
>it would take about 4 mintues.  My suggestion is to put the data in a
>searchable HTML formated database.  Searchable for the obvious reasons and
>HTML so people with PCs, MACs or UNIX etc. can all use it.

The only portable solution that I know of is to pre-build an index to all of
the articles.  This isn't terribly searchable, however.  Anything else would
require code.

It may be possible to write some sort of search engine in Java... anyone
know of a solution that would work for us?

>I am willing to donate my time and buy the CDs but someone will have to pay
>me for the media which I think is only fair!

Media costs are of course fair.

Coyote