use-revolution Digest, Vol 63, Issue 45

[Dale Pond]

On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:00 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> You probably want to eliminate the idle messages and the compact
> stack messages as well.

I don't know what the idle does. Does Rev auto-compact when cards/ 
data are deleted?

> You may want to stop using stacks entirely. Approximately how many
> stacks are there?

Approximately 229 stacks right now. So it seems logical to control  
all the stacks, cards, commands and functions from one location/script.

> Approximately how many cards per stack?

Card count varies a lot. There are approximately 16,000 cards  
altogether - give or take a couple or three thousand. Some stacks  
have a few cards while others have hundreds.

> How much information in a typical field?

Varies a lot. From a few words to several thousand. Most data cards  
have usually six fields. Some have more while some have less. HC/Rev  
is so incredibly flexible with data and what makes them winners in my  
opinion is the ability to search every word in every card and  
manipulate that which is found.

> Why are there separate stacks, instead of one large one?

To keep data grouped in diverse ways. For instance there are 42 cards  
each containing spectra from each element. There are 26 cards one for  
each letter of the alphabet to catch general stuff. There are many  
stacks that each contain the full text of a book. I'm always adding  
new books into their own single stack. Keeping data types separate  
keeps my options open to change that stack or stack set if and when  
needed or to manipulate them as needed - this has occurred before.

> Who uses HyperVibes, for what, why?

I use HV every single day as a data library and reference. These  
stacks are my personal data collection and research collected since  
1970s and (not quite all) hand typed by myself. These are my research  
notes. So you see to be able to search all these cards to find  
specific references is important to my work as a researcher and  
writer. In the end I do not see any reason to redesign the collection  
- way too much data for that now. If the HyperSearch stack can be  
made to work like it did in HC I would be quite happy.

> Paul Looney
>