> Here in list.yarn, james@sn.no (James Huang) spake unto us, saying:
> >If this sounds dumb to you others, it probably is.
> Nope. :-)
Thanks for the encouragement. <g>
> >I am interested in exporting news articles to either a Yarn folder or
> >ASCII file and then importing that into an Access or Oracle database
> >for better search functionality. This due to the many tips in
> >different newsgroups which I find invaluable but can never find again
> >when I need them.
> I have a need for this as well, and I generally use a resource like
> Dejanews (http://dejanews2.dejanews.com/forms/dnq.html) for newsgroup
> searching rather than doing the work locally. :-)
It is just that I already have the articles on my hd. Furthermore, calls
here in Norway are not cheap and holding a line open to one of the
search engines can be a big blow to the economy.
> FWIW, the export should be easy, since Yarn has export commands to
> both a folder and to an ASCII file (hit F1 when viewing the newsgroup
> list). The import I don't know about...
I do do exports to both files and folders. Getting the folders into a
database is another kettle of fish since I will have to juggle the
binary separators and (variable) headers.
I might just try it the hard way and sweat it out just to see if I am
sane. <g>
> >Follow-ups here might infuriate those not interested so email would
> >be fine. Will post a summary if there is enough outcry for that or
> >else emailed to those interested.
> Let those that dislike the answer be infuriated -- your question is
> quite on-topic here AFAICT. :-)
Thanks. Have saved thread to a folder just for that.
Regards,
James