ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer) (11/23/89)
There is a program called (I think) "Arbitron" for Unix machines that runs through all the user's directories and checks to see if they read USENET news, and which newsgroups they subscribe to, and counts them all up, and produces a nice report of these improtant statistics. Is there a simmiar program for use with ANU-NEWS and a VAX/VMS system? If there is, please let me know where I can FTP it from, or perhaps someone in net-land could arrange to Email it to me... Thanks! Ed Federmeyer -- //==========================================================================\\ || Ed Federmeyer || Internet: ed@iitMax.iit.edu || || "Unauthorized access is || Bitnet: sysed@iitVax || || strictly unauthorized." || Office: (312) 567-5981 || \\==========================================================================//
FAC2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) (11/23/89)
In article <3023@iitmax.IIT.EDU>, ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer) writes: > There is a program called (I think) "Arbitron" for Unix machines that > runs through all the user's directories and checks to see if they > read USENET news, and which newsgroups they subscribe to, and counts > them all up, and produces a nice report of these improtant statistics. > > Is there a simmiar program for use with ANU-NEWS and a VAX/VMS system? I tried to rewrite the arbitron program for VMS but I ran into a few problems. First, the arbitron is implemented as a UNIX shell script. Not an easy thing to follow. Second, it relies on the user having their newsrc file in their root level directory. Mine is in a subdirectory with a logical name assigned to it. Do we search through everyone's login.com to find the string NEWSRC? And we also need to read the sysuaf file to see where each person's login directory is. If anyone wants to try to implement it under VMS, I have the script and an example output from the program. I have already send this to someone else that requested it but I haven't seen anything from him. I can also give you what I had started. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ Earle Ake /___ /___/ / / Science Applications International Corporation ____// / / /__ Dayton, Ohio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: fac2%dayton.saic.com@uunet.uu.net uucp: uunet!dayvb!fac2
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (11/24/89)
>There is a program called (I think) "Arbitron" for Unix machines that >runs through all the user's directories and checks to see if they >read USENET news, and which newsgroups they subscribe to, and counts >them all up, and produces a nice report of these improtant statistics. > >Is there a simmiar program for use with ANU-NEWS and a VAX/VMS system? Not as such - certainly a similar type of program could scan the NEWSRC files of each local user, and the content of the unix and VMS newsrc files are similar in both format and semantics, but the differences are such that the arbitron program would require work to understand the VMS newsrc format. >If there is, please let me know where I can FTP it from, or perhaps someone >in net-land could arrange to Email it to me... who wants to do the port?? Geoff Huston
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (11/25/89)
> I tried to rewrite the arbitron program for VMS but I ran into a >few problems. First, the arbitron is implemented as a UNIX shell script. Not >an easy thing to follow. Second, it relies on the user having their newsrc >file in their root level directory. Mine is in a subdirectory with a logical >name assigned to it. Do we search through everyone's login.com to find the >string NEWSRC? And we also need to read the sysuaf file to see where each >person's login directory is. If anyone wants to try to implement it under >VMS, I have the script and an example output from the program. I have >already send this to someone else that requested it but I haven't seen anything >from him. I can also give you what I had started. Mail me where you have got to, and I'll see what I can do. Geoff Huston gih900@csc.anu.oz.au