On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:13:41PM -0700, Jared Buck wrote:
Which I wouldn't mind doing, being the official keeper of these files :) I have already stated that I find UTF-8 to be the best encoding to use and will save them in that format. I will have to go back and fix the special characters previously inserted via Latin-1 format so they display correctly.
Then someone can upload the files (since I don't have FTP upload access to the PG servers) and I can keep them updated once per week like they used to be.
Jared
Hi, Jared. As you saw, these files haven't been updated in 2009. Any reasonable format is good for us...it doesn't need to be exactly the same as George used to do them. My main strong desire is to include changes -- we often have catalog changes in the first few days after posting, and we also do periodic updates to older items. These can be tough to automate. Depending on how regularly you want to do this, I could set up a location for you to upload via FTP or whatever. In the meantime, I suggest you could just email me updated files, and I can get them posted. THANKS for taking this on. It is much harder than it seems at first glance. But feel encouraged to try things in different ways...not necessarily backward-compatible. -- Greg
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Michael S. Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:
We certainly wouldn't mind if anyone would like to take them over and keep tham up to date. . . .
Michael
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Andrew Sly wrote:
Here is a little background, for anyone following the conversation, wondering what this is about.
Years ago, the gutindex files used to be the _only_ way to locate a text at project gutenberg. If you care to search you can still find old "newbie instructions" written by Michael Hart, describing how to search the gutindex files, find a "base file name", enter command line ftp instructions to retrieve the file, etc.
This purpose has been for the most part superceded with the use of online catalogs. (An old one on the promo.net site, and then the current incarnation in use.)
However, the gutindex files have been maintained until relativly recently, and could still be useful in some situations.
They are basically, plain text files, with each PG text identified on its own line. Over time, more various conventions and additional comments, cross-referencing, and so forth were getting added and making it very bulky.
Having a catalog-type record for the definitive information source for each text began to make much more sence. (And thankfully made the distinction between the old "base-file-name" system, and the current numbered system invisible to the average user.)
On our current website, Marcello has identified them as "offline catalogs" and they are linked to from: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs
Andrew
On Sat, 27 Jun 2009, Al Haines (shaw) wrote:
Has anyone discussed the maintenance of the gutindex files with Greg
Newby? If not, it would be advisable.
Al
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