lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (06/09/91)
bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner) writes: > What do people think, is it worth the trouble to be able to type "news > reader" and pull up the readmes for a bunch of news readers? cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) enthuses: > YES YES YES PLEASE! >(Could you make available your mods to lq-text and/or scripts for >inputting data from comp.archives etc?) It seems only fair to David Bremner to say that I have his changes to my lq-text, and you can get them from me if you prefer. I certainy prefer (!), because I find it useful to know who's using lq-text and what they're doing with it, as this helps me to decide what to do next... The next release (the current version is 1.10) *will* include support for externally compressed files and for archives. I am also hoping to include the shared (distributed) wordlist server and the X11/xview front end, as well as a number of contributed programs. Having said all that, I've run out of words. No, that's not what I wanted to say (he blathered wildy), sorry! I'm also hoping to get some better result-sorting (`ranking' in the literature) into the next release. As with compression, the hooks have been there for ages, and I have experimented with both these things already. For comp.archives I can see that one might want to add a file at a time -- that's fine -- and to rename files from time to time as they're archived. So I'll have to have the long-awaited lqadmin stuff as well... I've also done a bit more work on making installation easier, as although it is already easy for programmers and people who have ported usenet software, a number of others have had difficulty forgetting to change things. So the new defaults either configure themselves or are ludicrously wrong so you *have* to cange them. Note: You can get lq-text by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.toronto.edu, in the pub/lq-text directory. Check the version number in the filename -- the last version I put there was: lq-text1.10.tar.Z The README file is included in the tar. Note to Ed: there ought to be some way of marking a news article as explicitly containing a pointer to an archive (as this one does), and also a way of explicitly marking an article as not intended for comp.archives even though it contains trigger-phrases... Liam -- Liam Quin, lee@sq.com, SoftQuad, Toronto, +1 416 963 8337 the barefoot programmer