chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (02/06/90)
Here is an updated version of the C News patch that generates message ids consisting of the date and time in hex along with the site name. *** ../sh-orig/anne.jones Fri Jan 26 09:22:27 1990 --- anne.jones Mon Feb 5 13:52:50 1990 *************** *** 106,109 **** --- 106,114 ---- esac + # figure the current time and pid in hex, for message id + now="`getdate now`" + mdate="`echo $now 16op | dc`" + mpid="`echo $$ 16op | dc`" + # give defaults and headers to awk cat $* | *************** *** 118,120 **** deffrom="$FROM" deforg="$deforg" \ defdate="` set $date; echo $1, $3 $2 \` echo $6 | sed 's/^..//' \` $4 $5`" \ ! defmsgid="`set $date; echo \<$6$2$3.\` echo $4 | tr -d : \`.$$@$host\>`" - --- 123,125 ---- deffrom="$FROM" deforg="$deforg" \ defdate="` set $date; echo $1, $3 $2 \` echo $6 | sed 's/^..//' \` $4 $5`" \ ! defmsgid="<$mdate.$mpid@$host>" - -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip> "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."