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Re: [ECS] 1997 Archive J Gary Mull Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:34:09 -0400

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I got it ifn ya want it.  Let me know.

At 03:28 PM 4/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, finially dusted off the "PERL" programming guide and dived in.
>
>I've successfully stripped extra blank lines, and lots of exterraneous
>mail-header info, forced pagenation, headers and footers from the text
>archives of every message posted to the ecs-list for 1997.
>
>Gary Mull was kind enough to e-mail it to me MONTHS ago, and I'm just
>now courageous enough to try PERL.
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>It wasn't bad at all!  About 3 hours work for a minor-league program
>that did tedious things to a 4.5 mb text file, reducing it to 3.5 mb.
>
>Anyway, I'm gonna "zip" it and it will be ready for posting to the
>ftp.gallops.com archives.
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>I take it the archive is an "open" site, available to upload.  If not,
>will someone let me know privately how, or whom to send the file for
>posting.
>
>
>Gary,  you ready to spool off 1998????  
>
>
>Bill Walters
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jgary@atl.mindspring.com   Gary at Home 
jgmull@us.ibm.com          Gary at Work

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