Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:6049 comp.sources.wanted:14312 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Greg McGary's mkid, lid, and eid package Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 90 12:57:00 GMT References: <1037@bbt.UUCP> Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 32 In-reply-to: slh@bbt.UUCP's message of 30 Nov 90 15:27:02 GMT Here at Harris we have also been using mkid since the original posting and have also made several enhancements to it, but I have never seen any updates posted or heard anything about an official "clearinghouse" for mkid enhancements... If there are a lot of people using it, perhaps we should get together via email, merge our enhancements, and post a newer version. Enhancements I have made include: added 'pid' tool to do queries on the *names* of files in the database (all the other tools query the contents of files). added 'iid' interactive tool for doing DIALOG-like queries, forming sets of file names that match certain queries, anding and oring them together. lots of bug fixes (generally handles pathnames much more cleanly now). New scanners and an option to use 'popen' to start a separate program to use as a scanner rather than having to have all scanners linked in. The main enhancement I want (but have never figured out how to do) is an update option that can add new files as well as update the existing ones. -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Wait, I forgot government tobacco subsidies...) | +====================================================================+