Found Delphi Informant BACKISSUES

[CaptBill]

And thanks again.
:44 minutes left for me.

I will seed the file when I get it and will add a link from my end.

[CaptBill]

Many of the pdf's seem either to be corrupted or contain an encryption in place rendering them unusable for me (the large file download 95-2005)

The 95-2000 download has none of these issues for me.

Is this the case for you guys too?

Thanks

[Dick, from the internet]

I haven't had any problems with the files - I have opened roughly 10-15% just for verification, so I went ahead and created a new folder with only the files from 2001 through 2004 and squashed it down to about 160Mb.   Still too big to post here, so I will attempt to create a rapid-share account or something to that effect.  Before I do anything like that, I willI need to pass it to my other box and verify the files are ok.

I'll let you know when I get something

geno

[CaptBill]

Hi Fleshmang,

That is good to hear. Here are some of the ones I found corrupted. You must scroll through quickly because in most cases the first index page work fine. Here are a few I found...

Jan 2004 (look close at this one, code examples are showing garbled)
Feb 2003 (same ^)

Jan 2002 (This one is totally wacked out)
April 2001(Of coarse the Kylix issue is totally unreadable)

How do these look to you?

Looks like an encoding error possibly when I burned the ISO possibly (I hope)

[Dick, from the internet]

Here are the four issues you identified - I viewed each file and they are fine on my end; maybe it was just some bad electrons in the download.
How about the folders with the source for each issue - have you check those for readability?  Let me know of any more issues with the issues!


geno.

I just looked closer at the file restrictions - there are only four, however they total 10Mb (3 X 2Mb + 1 X 4Mb) need to find alternative transmission route.

[CaptBill]

Thanks Geno. That is some good news

Look forward to getting that file.

And again thanks for all your hard work .

[Dick, from the internet]

OK - gonna give this a try; I had a bear of a time trying to get rapidshare to cooperate and finally had to settle with uploading one file at a time.  Let me know if this works for you or not.

geno.

https://rapidshare.com/files/1396232535/0104.PDF
https://rapidshare.com/files/2863482070/0201.pdf
https://rapidshare.com/files/97714740/0302.pdf
https://rapidshare.com/files/833080798/0401.pdf

[CaptBill]

OK - gonna give this a try; I had a bear of a time trying to get rapidshare to cooperate and finally had to settle with uploading one file at a time.  Let me know if this works for you or not.

geno.

https://rapidshare.com/files/1396232535/0104.PDF
https://rapidshare.com/files/2863482070/0201.pdf
https://rapidshare.com/files/97714740/0302.pdf
https://rapidshare.com/files/833080798/0401.pdf

Sweet.
All these render correctly this time.

How close to getting the 160mb file up somewhere are you?
Hopefully you don't do them individually, haha.

[Dick, from the internet]

Seeing as how this actually worked, I will now try to push it up to rapid-share.  It was taking such a long time with the 10mb is why I broke it down to individual files.  Maybe the network was choked when I was trying the first time. 

I'll post here when I finally get the file uploaded.

geno.

[Dick, from the internet]

Sweet.
All these render correctly this time.

How close to getting the 160mb file up somewhere are you?
Hopefully you don't do them individually, haha.

@CPTBill

Finally, after much hair-pulling and profanities, I have uploaded said file
good luck & enjoy

geno.

https://rapidshare.com/files/2869955897/informant_2001-2004.tar.gz

[CaptBill]

Excellent!

Phew... that was quite a lot of work.

Sorry it turned out to be such a pain.

Thanks again Geno.

[Dick, from the internet]

Not a problem my friend, though it is I who should be thanking you, and Blaazen; after all, you started this with the initial posting/file contribution and he added the big file.  I reaped the rewards of your efforts to locate and distribute this information, so I  just try to do what I can to pay back.

Thanks again,

  geno.

[CaptBill]

Isn't that a great find? I literally remember anticipating the arrival to the magazine rack every month, this mag. I would get the first one off the stack. In fact i was just getting proficient with Paradox when Delphi came along. So I read this magazine for several months before ever owning Delphi. Informant is what sold me on Delphi. So awesome to have Informant back. Such a great format for learning. Plus you get to see what other people are ACTUALLY doing. Even the adds can give you ideas.

I need to build a simple database app housing all these pdfs with full indexing of all the articles for fast searching.
I need to get up to speed with Firebird and plan to do this shortly. (found just the article I need for working with blobs all fancy, hehe)

Thanks for doing all the 'heavy lifting' that it took, Geno.

[Dick, from the internet]

I agree, it is a great find.  A lot of my peers always wondered why I would buy old, sometimes outdated programming books; and as I told them 'features may come and go, but the fundamentals remain constant', just as in these 'old' magazines.  Looking at the first issue, I realized that it would make a great primer for someone new to Lazarus/Delphi, so what is old is new again!

It's funny, back when Delphi was first released in 1995, I remember thinking 'that is OK, if you want to program under Windows!!'  At the time, I was hardcore DOS user, using Turbo Pascal 6, and was determined I was never going to install Windows on my computer.  So I never paid attention to the magazine.

Of course, around 2000 I had to give in and started using Delphi 5 and then Turbo Delphi, and this was the only reason I stayed on the Windows platform.  This is why finding Lazarus/FreePascal last year was such a great joy for me - I finally gave Windows the boot and now run a dedicated Linux box.

And now, finding all the great people and resources on this forum really adds to the experience.

BTW, the database app sounds like a great idea.  I have been reading so many comments about Firebird, I guess I need to take a look at it myself.

Thanks again,

  geno.

[I_Love_Pascal]

Finally, after much hair-pulling and profanities, I have uploaded said file
good luck & enjoy

geno.

https://rapidshare.com/files/2869955897/informant_2001-2004.tar.gz

Sadly, this file is now gone (File Not Found].  I've tried all of the other links in this thread, and none work for the issues after 2000.  I've searched extensively in Google and checked for torrents (no one is seeding).  Does anyone have a working link for the issues after 2000 ?       TIA.