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Re: [DL] Random RV&C2 quesitons [John Goff]



Interesting, a word randomizer ... that could work..
I like it.

--D

"Derek D. Bass" wrote:

> Why not an searchable index that contained the words for each page? Not in
> text order, that isn't necessary for the index to work. Why not in
> alphabetical order? A paragraph like, "The quick brown huckster jumped over
> the lazy zombie. The zombie ate the huckster. Poor huckster." would show up
> in the data portion of the index as "ate brown huckster jumped lazy over
> poor the quick zombie", with each individual word appearing only once per
> page. It would be incomprehensible if hacked, smaller in size than if
> padded, and still return page numbers and book titles. What does everyone
> think?
>
> Derek "Databass" D. Bass
>
> Etheric Musings--The Science of the Sons of Ether
> http://web.cari.net/~ddbass/Ether.htm
> _________________________________________________
> Patrick Phalen wrote:
>
> >
> > You mean like an index?
> >
> > Patrick
>
> No, not like an index, I want a keyword searchable cross-referenced
> index, heck, if I could digitize all my deadlands books so they would be
> searchable and transportable Via Laptop... or better yet, PDA or HPC,
> but I know that is a pipe dream... so I would settle for a more
> obtainable dream of a keyword searchable bookset available on the web.
> I am sure it could be properly secured somehow.  Heck the database could
> always be filled with a couple 20 gigs of gibberish on a separate table
> in the database, so that anyone trying to download it in it's entirety
> would have to wait a century or two for it to download.
>
> Ok, lets see someone shoot this one down... come on, I know you can do
> it!
>
> --D
>
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