moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) (06/14/91)
Archive-name: news/relaynews/newscomplain/1991-06-13 Archive: ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/news/newscomplain* [128.100.3.6] Original-posting-by: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) Original-subject: Re: Yet Another Cnews Thread (and, another solution). Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes: >Caveat: It wasn't really meant for distribution And it shows :-( Some of the messages dated to when we were the only site running the current relaynews code; Paul Eggert pointed out that whitespace is not even technically legal according to 1036. The default now complains about bad dates too. Here's a new version. It's also available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.toronto.edu in pub/news (not to be confused with pub/c-news). My earlier warnings stand; included here in case you missed the last version (now cancelled). > This script (requires GNU awk) was derived from the mail messages > Geoff and I sent out to sites during the alpha test of the new fascist > relaynews on news-server.csri.toronto.edu. > > By default, the script complains about whitespace in messageids and > non-header lines in headers. The -q option merely generates the > summary. The -v option complains about all errors the script knows > about. The -o option allows you to specify categories of problem that > it should warn about. eg. newscomplain -o d $NEWSCTL/log should > complain about unparsable dates only. Mark. [Script deleted. --Ed] -- comp.archives file verification ftp.cs.toronto.edu -rwxr-xr-x 1 917 10 5919 Jun 13 17:31 /pub/news/newscomplain -rw-r--r-- 1 917 10 1309 Jun 13 17:33 /pub/news/newscomplain.README found newscomplain ok ftp.cs.toronto.edu:/pub/news/newscomplain*