INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE - DIFFS
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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
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