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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Unpacking comp.mail.maps files
Message-ID: <10066@ncc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 19:30:40 GMT
References: <1059@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Organization: Nexus Computing Inc.
Lines: 21
Summary: Another automatic map unpacker...

Manually unpacking the maps is becoming a bit unreasonable these
days. Actually, it's quite simple to automate this. First, add the
following line to your sys file:

MAPS:world,comp.mail.maps::/usr/local/lib/getmaps

Next, install the following script in /usr/local/lib/getmaps (
or wherever is appropriate):

#!/bin/sh
#
# getmaps - unpack the usenet maps
#
umask 2
cd /usr/spool/uucppublic/uumap
sed -e '1,/^$/d' | sh


Not too fancy, but it's been working here for over a year :-)

--lyndon   {alberta,utzoo}!ncc!lyndon