Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> As David pointed out, making the CD's was difficult - I guess primarily
> because I didn't want to just dump the data onto the CD. I wanted to try to
> identify the same entrant across all rounds and years  (this was more
> difficult than it sounds) so as to maintain a list of entries and results,
> and I wanted to re-format the text entry files into HTML (again, more
> difficult than it sounds, especially with the changes made to the files by
> the IRTC submission system - stripping high characters, re-wrapping the
> text, and so forth). In the end I just couldn't justify the time.

  That sounds like the IRTC would benefit from a database where entrants
and entries are automatically collected. Such a database would probably
make it a lot easier to do things like you describe.

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                                                          - Warp

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