slh@bbt.UUCP (horn) (11/30/90)
I posted this several weeks ago, but I am not sure if it made it to the net. Does anyone out there in netland have any info on Greg McGary's mkid, lid, and eid package. It is an identifier database package that is extremely useful. We have a 1987 version, and I am curious if there have been any updates since that time. I have added some enhancements. I also tried to contact Greg at the address listed in the docs that came with the package, but my email bounced. Any info would be appreciated. Scott ===================================================================== Scott L. Horn BroadBand Technologies, Inc. (919)544-6850 Ext 223 Internet: slh%bbt@rti.rti.org BITNET: slh%bbt%rti.rti.org@CUNYVM Usenet: ...!mcnc!rti!bbt!slh =====================================================================
tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) (12/01/90)
Here at Harris we have also been using mkid since the original posting and
have also made several enhancements to it, but I have never seen any updates
posted or heard anything about an official "clearinghouse" for mkid
enhancements...
If there are a lot of people using it, perhaps we should get together via
email, merge our enhancements, and post a newer version.
Enhancements I have made include:
added 'pid' tool to do queries on the *names* of files in the database
(all the other tools query the contents of files).
added 'iid' interactive tool for doing DIALOG-like queries, forming
sets of file names that match certain queries, anding and oring them
together.
lots of bug fixes (generally handles pathnames much more cleanly now).
New scanners and an option to use 'popen' to start a separate program
to use as a scanner rather than having to have all scanners linked in.
The main enhancement I want (but have never figured out how to do) is an
update option that can add new files as well as update the existing ones.
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