Mostly about databases (Re: digest #825)

[H.W. Fluks]

AUGIE:
> How do you do an outline?  Well, as I was taught it a couple of years 
> ago, you could not have an 8a without an 8b, as one implies the other.  
> However, being a computer science major and not an English major, I'd 
> just say 8B.

Being a (computer) mathematician, I would say the most logical number
between 8 and 9 would be 8.5.

PER:
> Thanks John for looking up what issue of DTM "Back in Time for a
> Dime!" was in.  All this time I thought that an unnecessary question
> as that info surely was in the Don Rosa index on the ftp server, but
> when I checked just now it wasn't!

I thought so as well, and I also checked, and was also amazed. I looked
up earlier versions of that Rosa index and there it said "September
1990". Something must have gone wrong.

> So I've added that now, and that
> is the only change to it for more than a year!  So it's severely out
> of date now.  Any takers?

Jakob So/derbaum offered to update this index (or at least the Swedish
reprints), while I would update the other things afterwards. And then
we still would need other people to update the Finnish, Norwegian,
and Danish reprints.
Are you back from Cyprus yet, Jakob?

> There is index/creators/Rosa.story-index
> (and Rosa.cover-index) also, which are automatically generated from
> the database.  They are more current, but they don't contain all
> information in don-rosa.index, so there is still a place for that file
> I think.

I tried to put all information in the Database (and hence in those files
Rosa.xx-index) so we would not need to update things at two places. But
since it can take a while before the Database contains Norwegian (Jo/rgen?),
Danish (Jacob? Ole?) or Finnish data, the "old" Don-Rosa index has its
use.
(BTW: The same goes for the Van-Horn files. But the files "mm-dailies"
and "mm-sundays" could be removed, since the information is in the Database
in the files "ym.stories" and "zm.stories". Not very explanatory names,
but I'll try to change that.)

I plan to upload a new version of the Disney comics Database near the end
of the month. If I can manage it, it will contain a.o. a completely updated
Swedish index by Lars Olsson.

ARTHUR (to Don):
> You said this though: "What you refer to as
> "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (my title was "The Universal Solvent")
> appeared there in MUCH more complex form as "Vortex"." I'm sorry, but I 
> don't exactly understand what you mean by this. What I refer to as "JttCotE"?
> Is that the Duck-story, which you first called "TUS"?

In the current (quite old) version of the Database, the story is described as
"Journey to the Center of the Earth". I added that story when Don told us
he was working on it, and the title wasn't decided yet.
When Don told us the real title, "The Universal Solvent", I put that
title in my personal version of the Database. The only problem is that
it takes several months before my personal version becomes the public
available version...
That's why you called the story "JttCotE" while its real title is "TUS".

--Harry.
"You know where *brass* comes from, don'tcha?  or don'tcha?"
(must be from WDC 95. Right, Per?)