Prashanth Badabagni said:
Hi,
Can any one please get me all the queries in the comp.lang.c
in a .ZIP file or atleast some of the queries ...
You could write a program that queries your ISP's news server, downloads all
the messages on comp.lang.c, and writes them into a .ZIP file. You could
instead make a program that attempts to grab all the content from the Google
Groups website, but I'd imagine that they wouldn't be too happy about you
doing that.
This program could even be mostly written in C, apart from the networking
aspect. Note that news servers expire articles after a certain amount of
time, depending on how much disk space they have available, so you will not
get every message ever posted to comp.lang.c. For example, my news server
has 29131 messages in the comp.lang.c newsgroup. In contrast, the Google
Groups archive says it finds 422,000 threads in comp.lang.c. I would not be
surprised if this turned out to be a multi-gigabyte file.
You may find these documents useful:
RFC 977: Network News Transfer Protocol
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc977/rfc977.html
..ZIP File Format Specification
http://www.pkware.com/products/enterprise/white_papers/appnote.txt