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[steve ravet]

garfield at pilgrimhouse.com wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:27:04 -0400, "Bruce Plecan" <nacelp at bright.net>
> wrote:
> 
> >The staff at CSH, HQ is doing this.  At the moment 3 months are
> >posted at 332 incoming.   It is a very time consuming process.
> >Half to 3/4 of the archives is this header/winmail stuff.

Bruce, save your fingers.  This sort of thing can be done automagically
using the regular Unix cmd line thingys.  I can implement it, just takes
some time.

It may be harder to strip the winmail.dats, but I'll give it a go.

> 
> I can just see this lil gnome of a guy, with a rumpled hat that used to
> maybe be pointy a LONG while ago, sittin at an aged computer, with a
> bird on his shoulder (yeah, the kind with wings, you idiot), crankin out
> the tidy'd-up archives like some elf.

:-)

> OK, so here's me question, to Steve the Rivet, Bruce the Pelican, and
> THE GUY whose name I can't bring up right now from me own archives, that
> has all but a couple of the Digest #'s saved, WHY oh WHY won't someone
> who has ALL the stuff from the Big Bang on DiY_EfI, upload it to the
> diy_efi ftp site, a couple few zip files containing the whole smaltz? I
> don't really care if the headers are stripped or not, or if I have a
> great search engine, so much as being able to do a real thorough spelunk
> thru what's been said so far, vis-a-vis DIY_EFI.

Every post, from the very beginning, is available via the WWW page.  Go
to the search page, and at the bottom you see a list like this:

archive_num_1:   start date ==> Thu May  5 02:04:29 1994
archive_num_2:   start date ==> Thu May  5 17:43:03 1994
archive_num_3:   start date ==> Thu May  5 20:12:36 1994
archive_num_4:   start date ==> Fri May  6 02:43:50 1994
archive_num_5:   start date ==> Fri May  6 09:02:55 1994

If your eyes are up to it, click on archive_num_1 and start reading. 
When you get to the end, click on archive_num_2....

--steve


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