Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!s902114 From: s902114@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Zen [Stuart Bishop]=) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: How about a list of updates at cica? Message-ID: <1991May3.001906.792@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Date: 3 May 91 00:19:06 GMT Article-I.D.: minyos.1991May3.001906.792 References: <1991Apr27.005127.15710@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Apr30.162306.3744@cica.indiana.edu> <1991May1.045009.29064@leland.Stanford.EDU> Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia. Lines: 58 elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman) writes: :-)In article <1991Apr30.162306.3744@cica.indiana.edu> mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes: :-)>In <1991Apr27.005127.15710@agate.berkeley.edu> :-)>magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) writes: :-)> :-)>If you are running Unix, you can create your own list of recent :-)>uploads from the INDEX file. :-)> :-)>The following set of commands will give you the most recent ten :-)>uploads to cica. (This doesn't include those files in the "uploads" :-)>directory since we don't catalog them into the INDEX file until :-)>they've been placed in the proper location.) :-)> :-)>grep -v \* INDEX | sed -e 's/\n//' | awk '{print $2, $1}' | sort -rn | head -10 :-)> :-)>Ugly, eh? :-)> :-)>I don't think posting this would be a benefit to anyone. Those with :-)>ftp access normally get a copy of the INDEX on a daily basis anyway. :-)> :-)Now speak for YOURSELF! :-)I don't mean to flame, but I have ftp access and I only check cica :-)every week or so -- I don't have enough time or need to check daily. :-)I don't think that UNIX command a)is particularly rememberable for :-)everyone (OK, I could make it into a script, but I'm not sure how to :-)do so.), and b)isn't useful if there have been more than 10 new :-)downloads! :-)If you, as the cica administrator (I believe you are, right?) believe :-)that putting together an update index every time you make changes to :-)the INDEX (simply listing the changes, perhaps) would be a pain in the :-)butt, then say so. Personally, I feel that it would benefit a lot :-)more people than you seem to think. Here here! A lot people who use this newsgroup are actually WINDOWS users rather than UNIX users. Echoing again: If it can be done easily, would you please do it. If not, fine. Don't. We still love you for making this service available to us. :-) -- _____ Two elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom. // // __ // // / \ I\ I for a good time call // // (-- I \I alias s902114@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au // // \__/ I I Stuart Bishop or zen@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au // ((___________________________________________________________________// -- _____ Two elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom. // // __ //