FAQ posting

[David W. Pitsch]

Andy, could you enlighten some of us on how to access the archives?

Andrew M. Rudoff wrote:

> >I have been away for 2 weeks and noticed that the archives only go up to
> >July 29th. Why? Where is August that I missed while I was away?
> [...]
> >Sorry list... my last question was intended for Andrew Rudoff (personal)
>
> I've had this question a few times, so I'll post the answer for everyone:
>
> The web page has the archives listed in lexical order, rather than numeric
> order.  So the file v1997.n1000 comes after v1997.n100 rather than at
> the end of the list.  Here's what I see when I access the archives:
>
>         ...
>         v1997.n100             20-Aug-97 08:33    25k
>         v1997.n1000            29-Jul-98 16:52    25k
>         v1997.n1001            30-Jul-98 06:25    26k
>         v1997.n1002            30-Jul-98 16:59    26k
>         v1997.n1003            30-Jul-98 22:00    26k
>         v1997.n1004            31-Jul-98 05:24    24k
>         v1997.n1005            31-Jul-98 20:04    26k
>         v1997.n1006            01-Aug-98 07:01    25k
>         v1997.n1007            01-Aug-98 15:04    25k
>         v1997.n1008            02-Aug-98 12:26    26k
>         v1997.n1009            02-Aug-98 20:19    25k
>         v1997.n101             20-Aug-97 12:24    25k
>         v1997.n1010            03-Aug-98 06:43    25k
>         v1997.n1011            03-Aug-98 18:42    25k
>         v1997.n1012            04-Aug-98 01:00    26k
>         v1997.n1013            04-Aug-98 08:37    25k
>         v1997.n1014            04-Aug-98 14:05    25k
>         v1997.n1015            04-Aug-98 18:52    25k
>         v1997.n1016            05-Aug-98 12:34    26k
>         v1997.n102             20-Aug-97 14:23    24k
>         ...
>
> So you should be able to get to the archives by scrolling up to
> where the new archives are entered into the list.  Obviously, this
> is less than perfect, and I could change the archives to use leading
> zeros to pad to four digits and they would all sort correctly, but
> I'd rather work on my longer term solution.  The new solution I'm
> working on will put the archives into a multi-level tree, so that
> it is much easier to browse through the archives.
>
> I've been a bit short on time these days but I hope to install my
> new archive software sometime "soon".  So please bear with me and
> it will hopefully improve in the future.
>
> In the mean time, let me know if you still can't get to the latest
> archive files.
>
> -andy