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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: Re: Arbitron wanted
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Date: 24 Nov 89 17:30:21 GMT
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>        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.
     
     
Mail me where you have got to, and I'll see what I can do.
     
Geoff Huston
gih900@csc.anu.oz.au