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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News "upact" in Perl 3.0
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.014731.26346@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2565B57C.10978@ateng.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 89 01:47:31 GMT

In article <2565B57C.10978@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>The C News "expire" program doesn't update the third (min) field of the
>active file.  The authors of C News consider this field a hack.  However,
>they do provide a separate shell script, "upact", that updates the min
>field according to the actual contents of the spool directory.  While the
>distributed upact works, it's _very_ slow.
>
>Enter Perl 3.0...

Uh, in any modern C News distribution you will find updatemin.c, which does
the same thing in C.  It's not part of the default configuration because it
does require the directory library.
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