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From: reid@wrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: C news shell script questions
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Date: 4 Sep 90 14:45:25 GMT
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What code can I put in a shell script that will determine that a site is
running C news?

Given that I have determined that a site is running C news, is there some way
I can determine which article numbers are unexpired, other than the obvious
and time-consuming hack of looking in the spool directory?

I am asking these questions so that I can formulate a version of arbitron
that works with C news; enough sites are running it these days that the
arbitron results are becoming skewed by the wrong answers produced by the
current script on C news.

Brian