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:
  1. If you don't have it already, get WinZip, an excellent Windows archive/compression utility. Note that a free "evaluation version" is available.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.