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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: newshist problem?
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.023354.11294@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991May30.194402.24916@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1991May31.000943.10583@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1991Jun1.193655.544@iWarp.intel.com>
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 02:33:54 GMT

In article <1991Jun1.193655.544@iWarp.intel.com> merlyn@iWarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>
>Gack.  Starting a sh that did a bunch of echoes seemed a little
>wasted, so I did it in Perl.  (The whole thing shows a zillion
>syscalls with trace, so there's bound to be a few more optimizations.)

I tried to use this on my Esix system, but it failed since I don't have
"dbz".  To you Esix people out there --- "should I" have dbz?  

Is there anything like this (perl script for news stats) that will work
without dbz?

Thanks.
bill
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