Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!robohack!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: A Small-Memory Pathalias?
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.161623.3712@druid.uucp>
Date: 20 Mar 90 16:16:23 GMT
References: <1990Mar19.030224.16305@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1990Mar19.030224.16305@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> trier@SCL.CWRU.Edu (Stephen Trier) writes:
>Is there something like pathalias that will run comfortably on systems
>with well under a megabyte of memory, perhaps byt using temporary files on
>disk?  I'm interested because of an idea for creating a version of UUPC
>capable of performing smart-host mail routing, and I'm having a terrible
>time getting pathalias to run on MS-DOS.  (I'm sorry, "Get a Real Operating
>System" is not an answer compatible with my wallet.)  ;-)

If you have a friendly neighbor you can have them build the pathalias for
you.  I do this not because of a RAM shortage but because I can't afford
the space to keep all the maps on my disk.  A good neighbor (Thanks Greg)
modified his script file that runs pathalias to run it again for me.  I
think it is the -d option you want.  The script then uucp's it to me and
my cron checks for a new copy each night and uncompresses it and sets up
the permissions.  I don't know how you would automate this on a DOS system
but you can probably have it mailed to you and do it manually.

Note that this benefits the site that does this for you as well since they
only have to send one pathalias file from time to time instead of the maps
newsgroup thus saving modem time.  Of course this should only be done for
leaf sites.

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