Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!edhew
From: edhew@xenitec.uucp (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Unix Review changes policy
Summary: sorta write a little code to codify the sorting, sorta
Keywords: Unix_Review, costs, sorting
Message-ID: <1989Jul24.061845.2671@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 89 06:18:45 GMT
References: <193@van-bc.UUCP> <1989Jul20.153529.11737@eci386.uucp> <196@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Followup-To: can.general
Distribution: can
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON
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In article <196@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <1989Jul20.153529.11737@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>>Gee, I always thought the Post Office did that.  ;-)
>
>Certainly they do. If you want to send it first class mail!
>
>Magazines and other bulk mail users give their stuff to the Post Office
>pre-sorted. The post office is very quick to penalize you if you don't. And
>in the case of an american magazine sending into Canada they must be in
>separate bundles because of the different postal rate.

=====microsnip=====
:
grep -yn 'CAN' mailfile | {awk script to get std 5 lines}| lp -dlabel_printer
banner Canadian mail_BAG!! > /dev/tty??
=====microsnip=====

Somebody'll have to write the awk script (I'll read the awk man page
someday).  Now that's a tough one, isn't it?

The point being, I suspect the cost of doing so is some what less than
(let me try to remember that $20/annum CDN surcharge...), $20*1500.

		--ed		{edhew@xenitec.uucp}
				{edhew@egvideo.uucp until new maps hit}
>-- 
>Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca uunet!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 604-939-4768(fax)

  Ed. A. Hew             Technical Trainer             Xeni/Con Corporation
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