Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mb2c.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!mb2c!mep
From: mep@mb2c.UUCP (Mike Plunkett)
Newsgroups: net.news.notes
Subject: Re: mod.computers.* vs. notes
Message-ID: <335@mb2c.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 12:40:52 EST
Article-I.D.: mb2c.335
Posted: Wed Nov 13 12:40:52 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Nov-85 04:00:37 EST
References: <395857@sneaky> <146800003@uiucdcsb>
Organization: Michigan Bell, Southfield, MI
Lines: 37

> 
> i just received a letter from someone (i believe it was in oklahoma)
> that was interested in what hooks were in notes to use the news-style
> directory structure.  In news, the group "mod.computers.sequent"
> is stored in the directory "mod/computers/sequent". [prefix
> all these names with /usr/spool/news or whatever].
> 
> anyway,  all the necessary hooks have been in the notes code for
> a year or two now.  the reasons that i don't store things that way
> include:
> 
> 1. it complicates the wildcard matching.
> 	right now, when i say "notes 'net.unix*'" it
> 	reads from a pipe that does "cd /usr/spool/notes; echo net.unix*"
> 	works real well and is dead easy to code.
> 2. i've got 4.2 boxes and thus won't have to worry about the problem
> 	until we hit the 256 character region.
> 3. rumor has it that i'm supposed to be working on a thesis.
> 
> the second reason is hardly gratifying to the shortname people.
> 
> i think that the fixes came down to 3-4 routines -- the ones that
> open a notesfile, check a notesfile name for legality, and
> [the kicker] the one that will do your wildcard matching.
> 
> If someone really wants to get into this, send me a letter and
> i'll describe what i think needs to be done in more detail.
> 
> -- Ray Essick, University of Illinois
> -- essick@b.cs.uiuc.edu,    {ihnp4,cmcl2,seismo,convex}!uiucdcs!essick

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***

?