Re: Naming/Format conventions for INDEX files

["Eric A. Anderson" <[e-mail]>]

[e-mail] (Albert Langer) writes:
[fixing up listing files]
> I still think it SHOULD have been completely trivial, but with MY
> script skills it grew to an unmanageable mess which I had originally
> intended to polish up a bit at least to the point where it could be
> passed on for somebody else to finish properly, but I eventually abandonded
> it on the assumption that there are better solutions around. (Archie and
> the various mirror sites etc MUST have solved these problems by now...)
What should have been and what are are two different things.  I agree
that it should have been straightforward.  On the other hand, having
written the archie filter to make the listings files pass though the
enter program I have a new understanding of how messed up people's
software can be.  The biggest problem I had was with error output and
normal output getting intermixed.
For everyone interested, the filter is available as
ftp.sura.net:/pub/archie/software/filt.pl
It works on every site that the SURAnet archie server indexes.
          -Eric 
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