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- From: morton@bit.csc.lsu.edu (Donald J. Morton)
- Subject: Re: Digest Archives
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.142853.15887@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: morton@bit.csc.lsu.edu (Donald J. Morton)
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:28:53 GMT
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- | From: aliu@usc.edu (Alex C. Liu)
- | Subject: Mail-digest archive...
- | Date: 9 Sep 92 17:26:36 GMT
- |
- | But how about creating a table of contents? If I am not wrong, this
- | digests have "Subject" lines that you could extract and put in a
- | single file. And one could download this file and simple figure out
- | what digests have the subjects you are interested in and just download
- | that instead of downloading digest after digest after digest after
- | digest.
-
- For anyone interested, here is my two line script for performing the
- above subject extraction from the digests
-
-
- awk 'NR == 10, /-----------------/' $1 >> digest.dir
- rm $1
-
-
- Simply place the above in a file (I'll call it "extract" here), then
-
- chmod u+x extract
-
- Then, save your digest to a file (I'll call it digest.txt) and enter
-
- extract digest.txt
-
- and the subject listings (along with the digest number, etc.) are appended
- to "digest.dir".
-
-
- I realize there are probably much better ways to do all this, but for
- simple-minded folk like myself, it works!!
-
-
- I'll take this opportunity now to express my deep appreciation for all
- the work that's been done on Linux. I still find it absolutely amazing
- that I can have workstation-like capabilities right here at home, for
- FREE!! Hopefully, when I'm done with school I'll be able to find a
- niche in which I can be helpful in some of your future work.
-
-
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