From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) Subject: Re: Splitting comp.os.linux, again Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 18:16:20 GMT
system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) writes:
>rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
>
>### significant blather deleted
>
>> the correct postings? Heck, you could do it in *perl*. You could
>>do it in *sh*.
>
>Umm excuse your ignorance but Fidonet runs (mostly) on DOS machines and
>I doubt that it would be that easy to do in Perl under dos impossible
>with sh. Dos also does not support symbolic links and therefore requires
>that each message be separate. I also agree that that is Fidonet's
>problem not the net's and has NO bearing on whether to seperate the
>groups. We need not let fidonet's shortcomings affect the way the net
>is run.
err, you're the one with the brain damage. The deleted lines recommended
that the perl or sh script be run at the gateway machine, which is
presumably running UNIX and carrying a standard newsfeed to be gatewayed
to Fidonet. It would be the matter of moments to munge the contents
of five directories into one.
>Scott
>
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