--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Stuart Winsor
<stuartwinsor@a...> wrote:
> In article <bghkvq+84nb@e...>,
> Dave Mucha <dave_mucha@y...> wrote:
> > If you have a PCB related topic, (trying to stay true to this list)
> > I'll pull out a few hundred posts and send them to you. they can only
> > be acccessed in MicroSoft Access, so if someone can take a huge
> > database and export it into a simple d-Base file, that would solve the
> > problem of universal access.
>
> If someone is going to do an extraction, TSV or CSV would be better
as an
> easily importable file to any program.
>
> As a new member to this group I am still wondering how to handle the
huge
> archive of old postings to this group. Whether there is a way of
> downloading the entire achive (at work where I have fast access
instead of
> dialup on a 56k modem) or whether to spend many hours running up my
'phone
> bill reading and searching through them on line.
What are TSV and CSV?
There's a program called PersonalGroupware that can download all
messages, files, etc. or only selected by date, thread, or poster.
He's got it off his website right now for updating. He's just offered
to send me a beta version to test. I'll let you know.
To Dave M., even Microsoft Access must be able to export in a common
database format. The receiver would still have to set up their
database program properly to be able to search and view by various
things like thread, date, and poster.
Just don't upload it to the list files! Kinda defeats the purpose.
Steve Greenfield