[net.news.map] Bugs in uucp mail maps

hokey@plus5.UUCP (Hokey) (09/02/84)

In running the posted maps through pathalias, I have found several bugs
in the posted data.  Most of these are missing commas, typos, or missing
parentheses around the weights.  Some machines have a site name with *no*
connection information.  I have usually only listed the site entry where
the trouble was found:

uucpmap.1.ar:	cadmus
uucpmap.4.ar:	fluke, omsvax, uw-beaver, uw70
uucpmap.6?.ar:	packet, sdamos, sri-tsc, ucla-va
uucpmap.7.ar:	KUNIVVnet, qtlon, qzcom, UNIDOnet
uucpmap.mw.ar:	oakhill, sys1, sysvis
??map.a:	burl (comma after whuxle), neoucom, pur-ee (on ihuxa)
		The followng sites had compressed data fields in excess
		of 256 bytes.  These entries had linefeeds inserted after
		256 bytes and this screwed up pathalias:
		akgua, akguc, akpcb, burdvax, emorycc, gatech,
		uf-csg, uicsg, uiuceml

I won't even begin to tell people about the problems of duplicate site names.

I am glad these maps were posted with the data fields already compressed, as
the compress.awk script I have won't produce the same data when fed the
output of a compressed site after being fed through expand.awk (What I mean
is: compressed -> expand.awk -> compress.awk != compressed).  The first
line of my compress.awk says "see compress".  I don't have it.  I can
only hope that compress makes sure the input stream doesn't contain "%"
characters, as these are the field delimiters used by expand.awk.

I applaud the effort required to maintain this project.  We (I get to
maintain the St. Louis maps) have a long way to go.
-- 
Hokey           ..ihnp4!plus5!hokey
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