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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Archive-name:" proposed change
Message-ID: <6827@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 27 Mar 89 00:14:18 GMT
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I have seen plenty of postings that came out as "Part 38 of 37" because
something was forgotten along the way.  I don't think this can be
automated.

I'm wondering why you want to automate it, actually.

If you want to know if your archive contains everything ever posted to
comp.sources.unix, compare it to the index that's periodically posted,
or suck down uunet's "ls -lR.Z" from ~uucp or ~tcp and compare it to
yours.  This will not only check for all "parts" but will also tell you
if you missed a 1-part thing or a patch.  Also, if this shows that you
have *more* stuff archived than uunet or Rich, they can check
whether *they* have a problem :-).
-- 
John Gilmore    {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu    gnu@toad.com
"Use the Source, Luke...."
Copyright 1989 John Gilmore; you may redistribute only if your recipients may.