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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: C news shell script questions
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.200116.858@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 5 Sep 90 20:01:16 GMT
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In article <1990Sep4.165941.26080@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> If all you want is a crude approximation, encourage C News sites that use
> arbitron to run upact or updatemin regularly.  

What about putting something like

if test -x $NEWSBIN/expire/updatemin ; then
	$NEWSBIN/expire/updatemin
fi

(yeah, then look for upact as well, I s'pose) in the arbitron script ?
Updatemin's cheap and fast.  No reason not to run it only in arbitron
if you don't want to run it otherwise. [ triple negative, yuck :-) ]

Though being as cheap as it is, I run it anyway.  Why not ? :-)

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