Short: Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase Author: imdb-team@imdb.com (Manager of the Internet MovieDatabase) Uploader: amisoft uni-paderborn de (A U G U P ) Type: misc/imdb Requires: misc/imdb/imdb3_5_bin.lha Architecture: m68k-amigaos Distribution: NoCD INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE - DIFFS =============================== This archive unpacks to a directory called 'diffs'. The archive is named according to the week's full data to which they should be applied in order to generate the following week's data. The filename format is: imdbDiffYYMMDD.lha For example, imdbDiff941230.lha contains the diffs to be applied to the 30th December 1994 files in order to generate the files for 6th January 1995. The program 'ApplyDiffs' applies all files of the weekly diff-archive to the listfiles of the Internet MovieDatabase and checks the consistency of the data. You'll need last week's listfiles and the utility 'ApplyDiffs' in order to update your database. NOTE: if you miss more than one weeks worth of updates you need to apply the patches for all the missing weeks in succession to bring your local copies up to date. A short info about the MovieDataBase for new users ================================================== The Internet Movie Database is an international organization whose objective is to provide useful and up to date movie information *freely* available on-line, across as many systems and platforms as possible. It currently covers over 80,000 movies with over 1,000,000 filmography entries and is expanding continuously. 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