Thanks Larry for keeping the archives up to date. I find myself looking back more and more. And thanks for the suggestion about getting/using TextWrangler: I have just downloaded a few days ago and now have another use for it. Happy New Year -Stu PS - Sorry for the extra blank post - clicked the wrong button I guess On Jan 4, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Larry Siebenmann wrote: > > > Hi all, > > The FB list digests archive for December 2005 is up on: > > ftp://topo.math.u-psud.fr/pub/lcs/fb/FBdigests2005/ > > as a gzipped file of about 90 Ko, and well over triple that > uncompressed. If your expander hassles you, just use MacGzip > to decompress (it's in the .../fb/ directory there). > > My archives are unchanging and suitable for batched > searches with a grep (alias regex) capable editor. For old > Macs, I suggest using the editor QED/M by Nisus, and for Macs > under OSX, Text Wrangler by Barebones. You now have over 65 > Mo of FB discussion to search through. > > Cheers > > Laurent S. (in Paris) > > STANDARD CAVEATS: > > My ftp site is probably accessible only when your browser is > configured to use an ftp proxy provided by your ISP. If this > hint does not solve your access problems, check out previous > digest announcements or ask the list. > > -- > >