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From: mhw@wittsend.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Michael H. Warfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: "Archive-name:" proposed change
Keywords: multiple part postings
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Date: 27 Mar 89 18:27:46 GMT
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In article <780@usl.usl.edu> pml@usl.usl.edu (Patrick Landry) writes:
>My proposal would be to add a number to the end of the
>Archive-naem header such as
>	Archive-name: foo/bar/Part01of25
>If articles were stored using these archive names an ls
>in the directory would indicate whether all parts were there.

     We use "Part01_25" which amounts to the same thing.  Yeah I like this idea
alot.  I have a binary program running the archiving here because some of the
gyrations (compressing and linking the archive name with the "volume/issue"
name) are just too inefficient from a script (even if it is done only at night).

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