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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Notes on uu[hosts|mail] install (was: all-time worst path?)
Message-ID: <3479@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 10:16:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.3479
Posted: Wed Jun  4 10:16:53 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Jun-86 17:46:06 EDT
References: <185@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <220@desint.UUCP> <3449@mnetor.UUCP> <222@desint.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <222@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>In article <3449@mnetor.UUCP> clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
>
>> >	zcat u.*.Z | pathalias
>> 
>> How does this work now that:

>(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.

Great.

>(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.

"eof" would help.  However, how about placing a directive somewhat like:
the cpp's "#line" directive in each input file, so that if you cat the 
files together, pathalias can tell you which file and which line.  Eg:

#line	"u.att.ca.bcr.1"	1

Then pathalias can use it to track the line numbers back to the original files.
Then "eof" would be at every "#line" directive and at the end of the whole
thing.
-- 
Chris Lewis,
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