Better indexing on bitsavers

Randy McLaughlin cctalk at randy482.com
Thu May 19 21:16:07 CDT 2005


I created indexes for the five WesternDigital databook PDF's I downloaded 
and sent them to Al.

In a week or so I'll try a google search and see if it shows up.

I suggest anyone downloading PDF's that are not indexed spend just a few 
minutes and create an index, it will help the next person.

I created a text file using the exact same file name as the PDF file (with 
txt instead of pdf, and it was really 5 files).  I created a three line 
header and followed with one line per device with 24 characters for device 
name, 8 characters for printed page number, 8 characters for PDF page 
number.

Where more than one device was mentioned for a page I entered separate lines 
with different device names and duplicated page numbers, I only entered the 
1st page number not a range.

If we all share the labor it shouldn't take long to deluge Al with index 
files ;-)

It is possible that Al will not instantainiously post the index files so for 
now if anyone else sends Al an index file it might be handy to say so here 
so others will know they don't need to duplicate the work.


Randy 




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