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On Friday 19 July 2002 2:53 pm, Adrian Midgley wrote:
On Friday 19 July 2002 14:26, you wrote:I used to use Idealist ... Unfortunately the programme did not survive OS upgrades very well (win3.1 to 95/98)Mine has survived from w3.1 to NT4 via 95 and 98 - still the 16 bit version and very effective.
Forgot to mention that, out of curiosity, I recently fished out my old (16bit) copy of Idealist and tried it under Wine. Seemed to run very well, although I have to admit that I did not give it a thorough work-out.
What I looked at was using Python to run it by DDE in order to unify the various databases or clouds of info we have, but I have never found DDE very reliable or consistent. I might do it yet.I eventually found replacements for both these functions. For the departmental resources catalogue, I just write html files and put them where they can be indexed by htdig.I do that, but I don't think I can currently ask my staff to do it.For my own scratchpad I use zwiki (a wiki which runs on a Zope installation ) - works for me!I'm keen on wiki, I think the concept is vry good, very important, not quite such a step as teh invetion of the spreadsheet was but certainly important. But I have not done well at setting it up myself. Yet. That would be a possibility I agree, for general use, but the searching is less quick than Idealist. I looked at Mifluz, which was a budding off of the actual search core from Ht/Dig, and at mg which is a system deveoped partly in the digital library of New Zealand standing for "manage gigabytes" These have possibilities.
Interesting - must check them out... In a couple of weeks, when I come back off holiday :) Tony -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.