Hans-Peter Nilsson (hans-peter.nilsson@axis.com)
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 20:22:43 +0100
> From: Gilles Detillieux <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:33:19 -0600 (CST)
> I'd recommend not reinventing the wheel. Instead of a builtin parser,
> it would make a lot more sense to build an external parser around
> ghostscript. Its "ps2ascii" program, which is just a script that calls gs
> with specific options, would be a good starting point.
Right, but I don't think that's reasonable to do before the
release, and it adds a dependency to have another program installed.
I believe your solution *is* right and should probably be default
or recommended after the release.
> Is anyone indexing documents that are really that old, or is it a problem
> with incorrectly set modification times?
The latter.
And I don't think it's not a real problem, just a gotcha.
> In any case, as long as file times are stored relative to the Unix Epoch,
> then anything before that will appear as a negative number, even with a
> 64 bit time_t.
Doh! You're right; but at least the date represented by 0
*could* be changed to some time before the invention of speech,
if time_t is changed anyway.
brgds, H-P
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