From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!kolstad Newsgroups: net.sources Title: Re: uuhosts - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1904 Posted: Wed Apr 20 05:17:02 1983 Received: Fri Apr 22 07:52:15 1983 #R:ut-ngp:-22500:parsec:42500002:000:3943 parsec!kolstad Apr 19 10:18:00 1983 I use a slightly more sophisticated scheme that compresses the input data into position-dependent format (i.e., thus eliminating several hundred occurrences of the phrase "Name: " etc). Here are my procedures with a few of the first members of the data file. The only missing program is comm%.c, which is just like comm except that it stops comparisons at the first % sign. RK ================================ ================================ make.roster: # # takes its input from file "a" (robbie's universal scratch file) # a was created by "s"aving mark horton's submissions (out of our notes # system), hence the removal of *******'s and -----'s. echo Shaping up a... xed a << EOF g/\*\*\*\*/i\ \