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ASE packaging
  My future application had two mains challenges:
- The first one is, how to connect to Yahoo mail and download automatically more than 210 e-mails each week.
- The second challenge is, how to create an indexing, storage and search engine to retrieve quickly this information.
After several months of development a beta release of ASE (Advanced Search Engine) was born.
Day after day I improve ASE functionalities and fixed some bugs.
At the glance, the capabilities of ASE are the following:
- 2 Giga byte for the storage of the key word, that’s means around 618,000 key word
- 2 Giga byte for the storage of the files names, that’s means around 41,600 files.

Why this limitation at 2 GB ? Fore short, in the world of computing a microprocessor manipulate more quickly a king of data. Called byte, word or long word respectively 2p8,2p16, 2p32 bites. In the structure of my database there is a table that’s store the offset* of each key word and the offset their files names, those data are store in long word (2p32 ). Due to this limitation, the offset of the file name I can store limit my maximum size store at around 2 Giga byte.
Today (11/06/06) I store 267,444 key word and 18,035 files in my Yahoo Group database.
Offset is a relative position from a specific position. For instance if you have a starting position at 7A0h and on offset of 01Ch your news value is 7BCh.
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