Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:5490 comp.mail.misc:4344 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Training MMDF to use pathalias data Message-ID: <8320@gollum.twg.com> Date: 21 Nov 90 02:41:29 GMT References: <1833@utodaycom> Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 22 Note that I wrote a program ages ago (process-uucp?) which is in both the MMDF source & in comp.sources.unix whose purpose is to process pathalias output into UUCP channel & domain tables. A problem is that, since it was written on a BSD machine, it uses longish file names and ((*^*&^*&^) SCO strictly enforces the 14 character limit. But the version of process-uucp (renamed to some other name) that SCO provides doesn't (or so I hear) correct this problem :-(. A simple hack, which I will do when/if I have the time, is to fix it so you specify tables as "table-name:file-name" on the command line. This is good in two ways -- so that you can avoid long file names, and so that the admin gets to specify file-name's mnemonic to him/her as opposed to being mnemonic to *me*. If someone wants to save me the effort, please be my guest ;-) (Just make sure that I get a copy of the results..) -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- Use the force Wes!