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- From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
- Subject: Re: Can't add to KingFisher database
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.065512.19665@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec28.001735.10577@leland.Stanford.EDU> <72491@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:55:12 GMT
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- In article <72491@cup.portal.com> Minotaur@cup.portal.com (A Frank Swilling) writes:
- >> My first attempt to add to the KingFisher (1.11) database has been
- >>unsuccessful. I carefully re-edited the file containing the
- >>descriptions to disks 771-780 as instructed in the docs -- program name
- >>...
- >>Dave Voelker
- >
- >Wow, I think you did too much! I merely grabbed the text file
- >describing the contents of disks 771-780, named it "Fish.txt" and
- >put it in RAD, opened KingFisher, selected "Add Fish", pointed it
- >to the "Fish.txt" file in rad:, and sat back while it did all the
- >work.
- >...
- >Frank
- >Minotaur@cup.portal.com
-
- Frank is correct: KingFisher's "Add Fish" command is designed for maximum
- ease where adding new fish is concerned. It will skip email headers and
- similar "junk," extracting only what are legitimate descriptions. While
- the parser can probably be fooled, it is quite clever, if I may be so
- boastful to make that claim. ;-)
-
- The number of fish in the database is solely determined by the size of the
- FishIndexFile (Fish.Index) -- if this file is not properly updated on disk
- then KingFisher won't know about the added disks, even though they exist
- in the datafile. A 'Reindex' operation will detect and 're-add' these.
-
- If KingFisher complains that it cannot save the Name Index (and gives a
- name for that file in parentheses which is null) then you forgot to tell
- the program the name of that file: edit the KingFisher.config file (most
- likely in S:) and find the line
- NameIndexFile=
- and change it to
- NameIndexFile=Name.Index
- Model it after the line preceeding it (FishIndexFile) to get any possible
- directory or volume path correct, and make sure your disk has about 30K of
- space for that name index file. More is needed as your database grows with
- new disks being added.
-
- Lastly, I have an admission to make: up through version 1.11 KingFisher has
- trouble dealing with special characters in the upper half of the character
- set (Umlaute, etc.) This is due to a misunderstanding on my part about the
- signed treatment of the C datatype 'char', and the fact that I have always
- added my data from usenet announcements which do not contain these symbols.
- So far, I have heard from only two people who got stung by this
- problem (maybe you, Dave, are a third?) If I get enough requests (I'm
- really asking for it this time!) then I'll send out the fixed version,
- otherwise I will only release a more significant version in late January.
-
- Happy New Year, everyone!
-
- ._. Udo Schuermann Live long and prosper
- ( ) walrus@wam.umd.edu Peace and Long Life
-