comment { On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Vortex Swirling wrote: (...)
I have a large number of par files to search including the fotd's and list submissions. As far as individual artists, I once started collecting them but have never been diligent enough to even expand many of the zip files I've downloaded (which don't get searched by the way). I was wondering, has anyone ever seen or built what might be considered most of the pars submitted over the years? Something like OrgForm but for pars?
It's something that an avid script writer might be able to make out of the archives treated as one huge text file (the script could trim out the headers). I would employ FRACTINT itself for the processing, first, to see what happens. It would undoubtedly jenerate errors on comments that weren't delimited as such, but you could probably ignore them. There is, unfortunately, no reliable way to distinguish between formulas and parameters other than to assume that they are parameters and if FRACTINT chokes, then try using the segment of code as a formula. It MIGHT run out of memory on the whole set of archives, At least the DOS version probably would. I doubt that Linux (XFractint) with 2GB of virtual memory would run out of memory, though. You might find a "file splitter" of use for that case. }