Subj : Anyone here? To : Jame Clay From : Barry Blackford Date : Mon Aug 19 2002 11:47 pm Hello there Jame! 18 Aug 02 at 22:08, Jame Clay writes to Barry Blackford: BB>> That sounds like you are over the summit of the learning curve Russ, BB>> well done! JC> I don't know that I'm as far along the curve as Russ, but I'm certainly JC> getting along it... I needed to get my normal mailer for this node JC> (1:120/544) set back up again, after I lost the boot drive in the old JC> system. As you know, there are rather a large number of WWB echos & I JC> really wasn't too enthusiastic about creating the hpt config file (part of JC> the husky project) for the WWB echos by hand but I needed to get them set JC> up asap... JC> But I remembered that I already had a subroutine in a script I'd JC> written that could read in something like a backbone.ww file, & that JC> printing to a file in Perl is pretty easy... So, in 15-20 minutes I had JC> the base config file ready to go; it still needed some tweaking, like JC> some node connections added, but otherwise it was ready for use. JC> Now, for just a few echos I wouldn't have done something like that (Nor JC> needed to...); I would have just copied them in to the config file & JC> edited as neccessary. But for 417 echos, including their descriptions; JC> well, this is why I decided to learn Perl, being able to do such things... Are you dreaming lists and scripts yet? Best Rgds, Bazz barry@glonet.co.nz --- * Origin: Global NetWork ARGUS IP Mailer & FTP Fidonet New Zealand (3:774/605) .