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From: FAC2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Arbitron wanted
Message-ID: <656@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 23 Nov 89 14:18:25 GMT
References: <3023@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <3023@iitmax.IIT.EDU>, ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer) writes:
> There is a program called (I think) "Arbitron" for Unix machines that
> runs through all the user's directories and checks to see if they
> read USENET news, and which newsgroups they subscribe to, and counts
> them all up, and produces a nice report of these improtant statistics.
> 
> Is there a simmiar program for use with ANU-NEWS and a VAX/VMS system?

	I tried to rewrite the arbitron program for VMS but I ran into a
few problems.  First, the arbitron is implemented as a UNIX shell script.  Not
an easy thing to follow.  Second, it relies on the user having their newsrc
file in their root level directory.  Mine is in a subdirectory with a logical
name assigned to it.  Do we search through everyone's login.com to find the
string NEWSRC?  And we also need to read the sysuaf file to see where each
person's login directory is.  If anyone wants to try to implement it under
VMS, I have the script and an example output from the program.  I have
already send this to someone else that requested it but I haven't seen anything
from him.  I can also give you what I had started.

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