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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: MovieMUI (internet movie database)
- Date: 29 Feb 96 15:33:18 +0500
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- On or about 28-Feb-96 21:54:21 Henrik Dissing typed the following words about
- "Re: MovieMUI (internet movie database)". My reply is thus...
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- HD> On 26-Feb-96 13:37:27, Ronald van Eijck wrote:
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- >> Things are fixed with the 960209 diffs, but broke again in the 960216 d
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- >> A version of MovieMUI that can handle the longer lines, as used in the
- >> current plot.list, is in the works.
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- HD> Sorry for butting in here, but I've been wondering for some time about
- HD> this Internet Movie Database. I know that I can download megs and megs
- HD> of data and diff-files from Aminet, but my 14400 bps connection makes
- HD> this strategy close to useless. It also seems like a strange way of
- HD> distributing database information throughout the Internet. I mean,
- HD> nobody wants to see /all/ the information, so it really is a waste of
- HD> time and bandwidth to distribute it all to all users.
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- HD> So my question is: Is it possible to download just the database
- HD> "browser", or whatever it's called, and then use it to access the
- HD> database somewhere on the Net?
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- You don't need to download a browser. The Internet Movie Database is available
- online. Try http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/movies. Unfortunately the search page
- crashes here with IBrowse. There are FAQ's available. Go to Lycos and search
- on "movie database".
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