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Posted by Derek Cornish
Aug 26, 2006 at 03:33 PM
Is there any more news about the fate of the outliners.com archive? Last I heard back on May 4th was that Chris was having problems reading the contents of the file he had received.
Derek
Posted by Chris Murtland
Aug 26, 2006 at 05:31 PM
I’ve played around with the file I have a few times to see if I could get something more readable by humans extracted from it. So far, none of my attempts have been very successful. Although it’s kind of a pain, opening up the orginal file I posted in Notepad or other text editor will at least let you search through the content of messages.
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/files/outliner-opml.zip
Chris
Posted by Derek Cornish
Aug 28, 2006 at 04:40 AM
Chris -
Thanks for giving me the url again for the file. I must have missed it first time around.
I see what you mean about the format. It’s meant to be an opml one, but I haven’t been able to load it into Bonsai Desktop or Tkoutline - outliners allegedly able to read opml files - either by using the *root or *.opml extensions. RadioUserland was able to load it as *.root into some sort of outline/table-like display but I couldn’t get it to show individual messages, let alone threads, properly. Maybe the format is meant for RSS readers. It beats me…
As you say, it is possible to extract text from the file and search it. I have used TotalCommander’s lister viewer to do this, but a better way seems to be to index and search using dtSearch (other similar programs will probably do just as well). The results from this display reasonably, although not threaded in any way.
Derek
Posted by Derek Cornish
Aug 28, 2006 at 05:06 AM
As an addendum, using the free indexed search engine, Wilbur (http://wilbur.redtree.com/download.htm) gives a considerably better and quicker result than dtSearch.
Derek
Posted by David Dunham
Aug 28, 2006 at 05:08 AM
It’s certainly not an OPML file, as it’s not XML.