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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config
Subject: Re: Map updates in news.config
Message-ID: <203@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 88 18:00:42 GMT
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Maybe this has been suggested, but if not I'm suggesting it (I'm also gonna
start working on it, but don't hold your breaths). Rather than complain about
the noise generated in news.config, USE IT. We have a shell script that sucks
the data out of comp.mail.maps - well it ought to be possible to do the same
for the "single" entries that hit news.config. Try something like the
following: scan all new articles in news.config for lines of the form:

#N\t.*

When one is found keep copying to some delimiting line (i.e. blank or ----'s)
This gives us the new entry. Now do a

bm xxxx /usr/lib/uucp/uumap/[du].* | bm #N
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		Or whereever you keep your maps

where xxxx is the hostname from the first line of the above entry, and you have
where it's supposed to go. Now if we do some creative work with cat -n, grep
and head & tail it should be possible to clip the old entry out, and replace
it with the new. Voila.

Someone can probably do this with a shell script, but I'm going to try it
with a C program. Let battle commence
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