On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, John Hinsley wrote:
I'd like to switch from Communicator to Celeste. I don't have any problems with multiple ISPs and such.
The problem I do have is simply the huge amount (well, hugeness is relative, currently nudging half a gig and all in standard Netscape 4.7* on *nix format) of stuff I have to transfer over. It can't be as simple as copying all the child directories over, or can it?
Ideas, advice and cries of "don't do it!" welcome.
Don't do it.
Really, don't do it.
I've not yet investigated Lex's latest stuff, but having a 96meg messages file with >19000 messages is...interesting.
Not scary. Not really. Nope nope. Not really. Well, maybe a little :)
I'm becoming convinced that the current IndexFile design needs, at some point, to go. Or be updated. A fulltext indexing solution, at least for local stuff, seems to be the best solution, afaict.
Cheers, Bijan Parsia.