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From: tracy@hcrvx1.UUCP (Tracy Tims)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: 'Automatic' path routing
Message-ID: <1138@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 11:44:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 11:44:42 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Mar-85 02:37:00 EST
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Organization: Human Computing Resources Corp
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I was wondering if there is any automatic path routing software available,
as well.  I have hacked up some myself (but they are only a first approximation
to a solution).  I have a set of subroutines will can take a UUCP or Internet
style address and try to do a sane path optimization using pathalias.  There is
a routine for doing a site lookup in a pathalias or mkpath database (uses a
binary search on ordered text files so it's quite fast and it doesn't need a
special version of the pathalias or mkpath database) and a hack to Berkeley
Mail to have it use these routines.  I also have a command called "fixpath"
that reads stdin and writes to stdout optimizing anything that could be a
path.  It's useful in news when 'r'eplying to messages:  just set vi's
cursor to the beginning of the "To: " line and type "!!fixpath".  Voila.
Anyone want this stuff?

                              Tracy Tims    ihnp4!utzoo!hcr!hcrvx1!tracy
   Human Computing Resources Corporation         utcsri!hcr!hcrvx1!tracy
 Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  416 922-1937          dciem!hcr!hcrvx1!tracy