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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Useful #L entries in uucp map (was "Re: a foolish consistency...")
Message-ID: <339@maynard.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Aug-86 11:50:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: maynard.339
Posted: Sat Aug 30 11:50:01 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 30-Aug-86 21:34:19 EDT
References: <5048@decwrl.DEC.COM> <15454@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <432@epimass.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works Inc., Maynard, MA
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Keywords: uucp map plot(3) net.sources
Summary: see net.sources for #L hack

In article <432@epimass.UUCP> jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) writes:
>One way of putting pressure on people to improve their #[A-Z] lines
>would be to post some software that actually does something
>interesting with them.  As long as they are just comments, there's
>little incentive to maintain them.

Funny you should mention it.  I just posted a program to net.sources
that uses the information in the '#L' lines to draw a map on a screen
or plotter or whatever of a piece of the UUCP net.  In the course of
debugging it I noticed that most of the '#L' entries are either wrong
(too many people just give the "city" location) or incomprehensible.
Let's hope my posting encourages people to give accurate and parseable
'#L' entries.
-- 
Larry Campbell                             The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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