Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix!phoenix.princeton.edu!eho From: eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: An lpq watcher & brief descriptions on expo ?? Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 89 21:07:18 GMT Sender: news@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Distribution: comp Organization: Cognitive Science Lab. Princeton University. Lines: 21 Has anyone out there implemented any lpq watcher like lpqtool ? If so then I may save some time in implementing my own. Also, I'm just wondering if people dropping off contributions onto expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ could drop off a 2~3 lines comment on what is the package is all about -- say in a file called package.announce or package.man (although it'll be better if there is a separate subdirectory under contrib/ that groups all these files together so that the guy maintaining expo can fork a cron job to cat all these files together everynight -- say into a file called All-Packages.Readme. This way, people don't have to guess what the is package (e.g. ronnie.tar.Z) and have to transfer a large data set to see what is the package is all about (both wasting time, disk space & net bandwidth). I'm not sure how practical it is though since it requires the contributors to do something extra. Oh well .... -- Eric Ho Princeton University eho@confidence.princeton.edu