Beginning in 2007, we stopped
Archiving on a bi-monthly timeframe. We are now retaining the previous year's G&L Discussion Page
posts online, so that users may be able to search them from the
SEARCH field available on the G&LDP. We will continue retaining
the previous year and current year's posts online for the remainder of
this year. At the end of the year, we will Archive the previous year's posts [in multiple Archive Files],
and post them here. If you have a need to get archive files of the previous year before they
are posted, contact us, along with the reason you need them, and we can make the necessary arrangements.
For the most diehard of G&L
enthusiasts, I preserve here essentially every single keystroke that
has been posted to the discussion page (though I have lost several
hundred of the very earliest postings). These compressed archive
files consist of the actual HTML files corresponding to the posts, and
I expect they will primarily be used for research and historical
purposes. I unfortunately cannot preserve any images that were sent
in with the posts. Note that due to disk space considerations I keep
only approximately the last five thousand archived posts available for
download here - the archives prior to that are still around, but they
are kept offline; I can provide these on an individual basis in
extreme circumstances, such as for legitimate research purposes.
Warning: Unpacking one of these archives
will produce literally thousands of HTML files on your
hard drive, so make sure you fully understand what you're doing before
you unpack one of them!! Before downloading one of
these huge archive files, first make sure you can successfully
download and unpack the small file TEST.ZIP -
see instructions below.
- Extraction
Instructions
UNIX users, please contact me if you
need assistance extracting these files. Windows users, please follow
these instructions:
- If you don't have it already, get
WinZip, an excellent Windows
archive/compression utility. Note that a free "evaluation version" is
available.
- Click on the archive file you want (like GLDP1.ZIP, for example).
WinZip may open automatically at this point; if so, simply use WinZip to
extract the archive. Alternatively, save the archive to a convenient place
on your disk, and once it's done downloading, open it in WinZip.
- Again, be careful - these archives contain literally thousands of
files!
- Searching Instructions
Once the archive has been unzipped into a directory, you'll want to use a
file-searching tool on the resulting files to isolate the posts you're
interested in:
-
Windows users can either use the DOS find
command or a fancier utility such as
Windows Grep. If anyone knows
of other nice Windows file-searching tools, please
let me know so I can add links
to them here.
-
UNIX/Linux users should use grep or egrep. For example,
to find the post from G&L's David McLaren announcing the formaion of the
G&L Custom Creations department, you might type something like
"grep -iv creations * | grep -i custom | grep -i mclaren" from within the
archive directory.
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