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- From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: News/mail reader
- Message-ID: <Z4scuB14w165w@xocolatl.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:46:22 PST
- References: <TeRauB3w165w@dogear.spk.wa.us>
- Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
- Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA
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- bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick) writes:
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- -> kjhoule@iowegia.uucp (Kevin Houle) writes:
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- -> > For the time being, I've written a program that does just that. Given a
- -> > root directory on the command line, the program recurses through the
- -> > root and sub-directories and deletes duplicate articles based on the
- -> > Message-ID header. As duplicates are removed, the filenames are
- -> > resequenced in ascending order starting with the lowest original
- -> > article. If anyone is interested, let me know.
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- -> I'm VERY interested. Depending on size, perhaps an encoded posting?
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- Me too.
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- Is the resequencing a configurable option?
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- I can see folks missing articles after the numbers have been
- compressed and/or having their join pointers reset because it is now
- greater then the actual number of the messages.
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