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From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: My script for mapfiles/pathalias updating
Keywords: pathalias, maps, update, script
Message-ID: <471@unisv.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 88 15:46:47 GMT
References: <957@flatline.UUCP> <320@elan.UUCP>
Reply-To: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Unisys Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA
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In article <957@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes:
[description of map-updating script]
>>Anyone who thinks they can do this better, please post your script.

I just put a line in my KILL file for comp.mail.maps, as follows:

/^/w | (cd /maps/newmaps ; sh)

I leave comp.mail.maps subscribed, so when I read the news, as soon as
I come to the map group, all the new maps are automatically copied to
the map directory.  All record-keeping is done by   rn  so there's
no need for timestamping and such.

I could also put a /^/j in there so it would automatically mark them
all as read after writing them to the map directory, but I preferr to
hit 'cy' manually after seeing them written out.
-- 
Mike Van Pelt                                 "Hey, hey, ho ho,
Unisys, Silicon Valley                        Western culture's got to go."
vanpelt@unisv.UUCP                            Stanford students and faculty.