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- cost.c Copyright 1991 Sameer Parekh
- Calculates the approximate monthly cost of the usenet from the news.lists
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- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- I wrote this program because I wanted to know how much the usenet
- would cost total. As of 9/4/91, I calculated that it costs $718,025 per
- month. That's about 50 cents per month per usenet reader. (for about 1.6
- million readers.)
- Anyway, to use this, you have to make all the non-list lines
- preceded with a '*' in the FIRST character. (I use gets(buffer) and then
- buffer[0] == '*' to check.) That's like my commenting system.
-
- I also created data structures in my program for all the data
- provided...its all read in...so if you want to manipulate the data some
- more, you can change my program a bit. If you do, please mail me about it
- and if I am interested I'll ask you to send me the source.
- Thanks..You can mail me at zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM or
- zane@infopls.MCS.COM.
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