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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Sep 22, 2015, at 4:58 PM, LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> In response to a message written on 23.09.2015, 01:28, from Andy Peters:
>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Good lord. You know you can just store datasheets in a directory on your
>>> file system, right? The same way people have stored things on computers
>>> for decades. Your computer /already has this functionality/.
>> 
>> Yeah, like who _doesn’t_ have a big directory tree starting with
>> “datasheets” and then a long long list of vendors and within each vendor
>> maybe a bunch of categories …
>> 
>> Why does the tool need to do EVERYTHING?
> So to have the computer read all the world datasheets and he was planning
> schemes… Why do you want nothing to do? ;)
> It might be some programically impossible to guess element's category. Producer
> may be cataloged by download domain, but downloads in example from
> datasheetarchive.com may be not recognized.
> Of course is possible to make some downloader, which accepts URL drag and drop.
> Any volunteer may base on my work:
> https://github.com/LordBlick/videoBasket

Isn’t easier to go to the vendor’s web site and grab a data sheet? 

-a