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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APPLE2-L
Message-ID: <283@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 06:19:07 EST
Article-I.D.: n8emr.283
Posted: Sun Oct 25 06:19:07 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Oct-87 05:25:08 EST
References: <8710222116.AA05127@crash.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: N8EMR's Ham BBS (HBBS), Columbus,Ohio
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I am going to agree with the folks who are calling for software to be
posted here.  May I suggest an alternative to the listserv software - perhaps
something could be set up for those 100 or so folks who are stuck with the
3 meg of disk on bitnet for public domain Apple software and the rest of
us who have a hundred meg or more could continue to get the software here.

Place the characters "SOURCE:" at the beginning of the subject title, or 
perhaps in the keyword field of your posting.  Then folks who have software
which download messages from another site can write some software which 
generates a list of files which do not contain such lines.  For instance,
the main folks who were having a problem with posting source code in this
group were the pro-line boards - Don Elton and Morgan Davis.  There were
some others, but the Pro-Liners had the legitamate problem of not wanting
to spend the time, $$, and disk space downloading their own software, etc.
I assume that they do not download all articles within the group's message
area - they would be downloading articles over and over again.  So since
some kind of determination of articles has to be made and then fed to
the downloading software, lets make it possible to add a new selection. 
On a unix system, one might have the following:

egrep -v -l "^Subject: SOURCE: " /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/apple/* > /tmp/t21
for i in `cat /tmp/t21` ; do
umodem -st $i
done

Of course, rather than using all articles as above, one will use the
newer ones if available.  In fact, what I typically do is set off a find
command within this directory, comparing against the last date that I downloaded
files.  After getting the names of the new files, I then touch a file in my
home directory, so I know what the newest date to start searching from.
Anyways, enought implementation notes.  I am just tired of having to get
onto CIS and pay big bucks to download software that OUGHT to have been coming
in my system via usenet!

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