lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) (03/13/89)
I've been unable to reach Eric Raymond. I need information on when tmn will be available, and what the approximate format of the history file will be. Anybody know? -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]
wisner@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) (03/13/89)
History file format for 3.0 (and probably C, too): <ezNHK#p6bSn=wisner@emptys.cc.umich.edu> 605680935 0 test/1 general/1 ^ that's a \t ^ that too The first number is the time() the message was received; the second number if non-zero is the explicit time() when the message should expire. the last field can consist of space-seperated path names for the article, it can be blank, it can be the string "cancelled", or it can be a set of message-IDs. I don't remember the use of that last case except that it's only used when the article has not yet been received but has been spotted in References: lines.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (03/15/89)
In article <1002@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> wisner@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) writes: >History file format for 3.0 (and probably C, too): > ><ezNHK#p6bSn=wisner@emptys.cc.umich.edu> 605680935 0 test/1 general/1 > ^ that's a \t ^ that too Close, except that we thought using different kinds of white space to mean different things was a bad idea (except for backward compatibility with previous mistakes) and separated the subfields of the middle field with '~' rather than ' ' (after abandoning a four-field history file as too much of a compatibility hassle). I really dislike using space and tab with different meanings, but I'll have a last-minute look at the code and see if we can change this; I'd really prefer compatibility. I hope 3.0 is prepared to ignore extra subfields (of the middle field), by the way; C will be, as a hedge against future development. (One obvious extra subfield which may be a last- minute C addition is the size of the article, which matters to people who are trying to do size-based expiry.) -- Welcome to Mars! Your | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology passport and visa, comrade? | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) (03/15/89)
Don't take my word as the absolute truth. My information is from a rather old beta version of TMN; Eric may very well have changed some things since then.