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From: df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: COPS in perl?
Keywords: fun, easy, make money in your spare time, sex, etc.
Message-ID: <9920@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 21:41:34 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University (Software Engineering Institute), Pgh, PA
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  Now that the latest version of cops is out, I thought I'd solicit some
help from the net again.  Lots of people wanted me to rewrite the thing
in perl, and I'm willing, with a little help.  I've got 3 other people
already committed; I figure get 3 or 4 more good coders, and we could get
it done in a week without breathing hard.  Ok, maybe by Usenix we could
ship out a copy.  It'll be public domain, etc, etc.  Heck, with Randal
and Larry, it could probably be done in, oh, let's see, 14 or 15 total
modules, that's.... 14-15 lines of code, right?

  So, volunteers?  I'll coordinate the group, we can discuss how to proceed,
what ways to improve it, and then whip it off.  You'd be responsible for
1 or 2 modules, that's all.  Trivial.  Future versions of COPS would be
available in both perl and the normal shell versions, unless everyone 
suddenly gets perl (hint, hint.)  Heck, someone's probably already done
this anyway, right?  Just send me the code, and I'll post it for you.  If
you don't know what cops is, don't bother.

 (the ever generous) dan

   df@death.cert.sei.cmu.edu