ken@rochester.ARPA (SKY) (12/23/86)
I don't know of any way to get the subject from the tape short of reading the tape, but here is a useful tip: mh can be used to read news articles. For example, to scan the directory all you have to say is "scan +/usr/spool/news/...". If you don't like typing in the long pathname, then make a symbolic link to your mail directory. For instance, I have ~/Mail/modsources -> /usr/spool/news/mod/sources. Ken
paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) (01/06/87)
Some time ago, I wrote a little program that reads a tar tape and (assuming that it is a news archive tape) writes a list of subjects and filenames to stdout. There is probably a better way to do this, but my program sure is handy! By using big buffers and skipping over big files, it runs pretty fast. I store the list of subjects in a file whose name contains the date of the archive. Thus, I can grep for all references to bluplefritz and get the subject text, the file name on the tape, and the date of the archive tape I need to mount. Without this program, it would be painful to try to find something on the news backup tapes. I am a packrat, and I needed an easy way to find stuff. If enough people are interested in the program, I will post it to net.sources. Paul Allen -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Paul L. Allen | "Look out, men! He's armed!" Boeing Advanced Technology Center | "I've got a cheese grater, POB 24346 M/S 7L-44, | and I'm not afraid to use it!" Seattle, WA, USA 98124 | "Don't make it any harder (206) 865-3207 | on yourself, kid! Drop it!" ...!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!paula | "Eat mozzarella, copper!"