Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: status of tmn Message-ID: <1989Mar14.223010.6828@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1002@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 22:30:10 GMT In article <1002@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> wisner@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) writes: >History file format for 3.0 (and probably C, too): > > 605680935 0 test/1 general/1 > ^ that's a \t ^ that too Close, except that we thought using different kinds of white space to mean different things was a bad idea (except for backward compatibility with previous mistakes) and separated the subfields of the middle field with '~' rather than ' ' (after abandoning a four-field history file as too much of a compatibility hassle). I really dislike using space and tab with different meanings, but I'll have a last-minute look at the code and see if we can change this; I'd really prefer compatibility. I hope 3.0 is prepared to ignore extra subfields (of the middle field), by the way; C will be, as a hedge against future development. (One obvious extra subfield which may be a last- minute C addition is the size of the article, which matters to people who are trying to do size-based expiry.) -- Welcome to Mars! Your | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology passport and visa, comrade? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu