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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: inpaths
Message-ID: <1989Sep25.044131.23828@rpi.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 89 04:41:31 GMT
References: <1989Sep24.072129.17264@rpi.edu> <16431@netsys.netsys.COM>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In-Reply-To: len@netsys.netsys.COM's message of 24 Sep 89 10:27:40 GMT

In <16431@netsys.netsys.COM> len@netsys.netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
Len> Why go through all of that when you can do it far easier by
Len> having a list of all articles placed in ~spool/batch/survey
Len> and then just running a short shell script via cron..

"all of that"?  Did you even _glance_ at what it was doing?  Or the
use of the word "simple" three or four times?

"short shell script via cron"?  That's all it is!

"far easier"?  The little script I provided didn't even require a sys
file entry.  What's more, inpaths run by it won't spend a lot of time
getting back ENOENTs because of files which have been expired.  Most
sites don't keep news around for a whole month.  I also hate having
files, especially _huge_ files, sitting around when I don't need them.
Over the course of one month by that method, batch/survey would grow
to many, many megabytes.

Now I'm not saying that anyone other than me should even bother using
it, but please don't just throw phrases like that at what someone is
trying to contribute without even seeing what they've done.

Dave
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