Family Album irritation

[Mihnea Cotet]

At 23:51 20/12/2001 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:
>I had an interesting idea a couple of days ago, when I was thinking about
>parts commonality.  Wouldn't it be an idea to drive a
>parts system backwards - i.e., I have a car in front of me at a breaker's
>- what does it have that would fit a Type nn?
>
>A fairly easy problem to solve with appropriate application of IT - but
>not one forseen in any Audi system.  A lot of data, too ...
>
>My ultimate goal is a WAP application - input the VIN of what you've found
>and the system SMSes you back with what you should take
>off it.
>
>So I set about extracting data from a system we all know and love,
>automatically building .HTML files after sorting and knocking out
>duplicates.  And duplicates started to worry me.
>
>There really are genuine duplicates in the raw data - every item that is
>on the bottom row of a page is on the top row of the next
>page.  This isn't done by clever programming - they actually generate
>these entries twice!
>
>I've just spent twenty minutes looking for a bug that's actually in
>someone else's code.

Now that's one of the best ideas that I've heard of ever! I sincerely wish
you good luck with this project and I hope it'll be done soon!

Keep us posted about this please, Phil!

Regards,

Mihnea

'85 -OOOO- Coupe quattro

http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=350