Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: vsi1!lmb@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: On changes to the Usenet side of Sun-Spots Message-ID: <1236@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 4 Dec 88 01:43:45 GMT References: <2189@kalliope.rice.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 30 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 22 Nov 88 17:56:13 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 36, message 11 of 12 In article <2189@kalliope.rice.edu> Sun-Spots@Rice.edu writes: [ Sun-Spots didn't write anything! It was Skip Mantanaro] >... >As I stated in my response to the survey, I archive Sun-Spots. It would be >more tedious to keep and use archives that were not in digest format. I, too, archive sunspots. It was pretty simple to set up an archive by adding a user, named "sunspots", to the Internet mailing list. The user has a .forward file with: "|sh /u1/sunspots/spotsave" Spotsave is a script: ARCHIVE=/u4/spotarch cat - >/tmp/spots$$ vol=`sed -n -e '/ Sun-Spots Digest, /{' \ -e 's/^\(.*, \)\(.*\)$/\2/p' \ -e q \ -e } \ /tmp/spots$$` start=`sed -n -e '/^SUN-SPOTS DIGEST/{' \ -e = \ -e q \ -e } \ /tmp/spots$$` tail +$start /tmp/spots$$ | compress > $ARCHIVE/$vol.Z rm /tmp/spots$$ -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov