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- Here are two shell programs, "saversc" and "note" (plus manual pages),
- for organizing sources from Usenet. I wrote them to deal sensibly with my
- ever-growing "miscellaneous net sources" directory, and have found them
- enormously useful. I expect other folks will find them helpful too.
-
- Basically, "savesrc" will take a single program source file or a
- shell archive, place it in a designated source directory or sub-directory
- thereof, unshar it if necessary, generate a Makefile entry if necessary,
- prompt for a half-line description of what the program does, attempt
- to compile it, give the user a shell to twiddle it when it doesn't
- work, and add entries to a file of notes indicating what it is, where
- and whom it came from, when it arrived, and whether or not it works.
- It will also deal sensibly with header files, bugs/fixes, and manual pages.
- It can be used directly from "rn" as "| savesrc destination".
-
- "Note" manages the files of notes on the sources.
-
- Christine Robertson {ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!toram!chris
-