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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: Enhancement request for ELM filter command
- Message-ID: <2A78483D.7983@tct.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:51:25 GMT
- References: <1216@ki.com> <1992Jul27.180016.17159@DSI.COM> <1992Jul28.150550.14382@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
- Keywords: filter
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- According to nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham):
- >There is a gap in the market (as seen by me!), for a [...] front-end
- >to deliver to make it easy, painless and possibly even error free
- >(syntactically at least) to generate deliver control files.
-
- One of these days I'll write a special language parser into Deliver
- so it won't have to spawn a subprocess in order to do simple delivery
- direction.
-
- Or perhaps not. Deliver's pretty big already.
-
- If someone were to show me how (read: if someone were to send me a
- patch) to eliminate the yacc-based getdate.y, then I might not mind
- adding an alias.y for a simple aliasing language.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to
- compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?" -- Dean Engelhardt
-