kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (10/16/90)
After total frustration with the proliferation of shell scripts at all levels of the news process, I actually sat down and rewrote anne.jones and defhdrs.awk in C. So far, it seems to be holding up ok. I've ported it from our Sun-4's under 4.1, to Ultrix under 3.1D. I'm very interested in hearing from people who'd be willing to not only give this thing a run-through on their system (and try their best to make it die a horrible death), but also to let me know if it compliles properly. (I have a feeling it's gonna die under SysV.) It's far from complete, but it beats the living hell out of the script, speed-wise. Please respond via email. -- Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu [ Oct 16 they say; tune in & see ] For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Also: brendan.kehoe@cyber.widener.edu "I've tried to forget you, but my Calvins won't let me." "Oh PuhLEEZ."