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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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Subject: Re: Notes on uu[hosts|mail] install (was: all-time worst path?)
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Date: Sat, 31-May-86 17:20:33 EDT
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In article <3449@mnetor.UUCP> clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:

> >	zcat u.*.Z | pathalias
> 
> How does this work now that:
> 
> 	a) some of the u.* file names are 13 or 14 chars long and compress
> 	   refuses to compress them?
> 	b) 4.0 "zcat" refuses to handle uncompressed files (so zcat u.* won't
> 	   work either given (a))

To answer these questions, let me summarize some mail conversations I've
been having with Mark and Peter:

(1) Mark hadn't thought about the 14-character problem vis-a-vis compress.
He apparently intends to cure it, apparently by replacing "att" with "a"
and "bcr" with "b" in path file names.  This is not too hard to do by hand,
which is how I solved the problem.

(2) It is true that pathalias has knowledge of file boundaries:  the "private"
keyword takes effect from where it appears to the end of that input file.  I
have suggested to Peter that a keyword be added that means "eof";  this can
be appended to each input file before cat'ing them all together.  I don't
know what Peter thinks of this idea, however.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
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