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From: essick@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: mod.computers.* vs. notes
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 23:27:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 23:27:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!essick    Nov  7 22:27:00 1985


i just received a letter from someone (i believe it was in oklahoma)
that was interested in what hooks were in notes to use the news-style
directory structure.  In news, the group "mod.computers.sequent"
is stored in the directory "mod/computers/sequent". [prefix
all these names with /usr/spool/news or whatever].

anyway,  all the necessary hooks have been in the notes code for
a year or two now.  the reasons that i don't store things that way
include:

1. it complicates the wildcard matching.
	right now, when i say "notes 'net.unix*'" it
	reads from a pipe that does "cd /usr/spool/notes; echo net.unix*"
	works real well and is dead easy to code.
2. i've got 4.2 boxes and thus won't have to worry about the problem
	until we hit the 256 character region.
3. rumor has it that i'm supposed to be working on a thesis.

the second reason is hardly gratifying to the shortname people.

i think that the fixes came down to 3-4 routines -- the ones that
open a notesfile, check a notesfile name for legality, and
[the kicker] the one that will do your wildcard matching.

If someone really wants to get into this, send me a letter and
i'll describe what i think needs to be done in more detail.

-- Ray Essick, University of Illinois
-- essick@b.cs.uiuc.edu,    {ihnp4,cmcl2,seismo,convex}!uiucdcs!essick