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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Subject: Re: I need the metconfig sources
In-Reply-To: jik@athena.mit.edu's message of Wed, 20 Mar 91 00:27:50 GMT
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Date: 19 Mar 91 21:15:51

In article <1991Mar20.002750.5570@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

     Alternatively, you could check the comp.sources.unix index on uunet.uu.net
   (although you would have to know to look for "config" or "configure" instead
   of "metaconfig") and you would find, in volume 16:

	   dist2/part[01-07]	Larry Wall's Configure generator, etc.
	   dist2/patch1		Larry Wall's Configure generator, etc.
	   dist2/patch2		Larry Wall's Configure generator, etc.

and how pray tell are you supposed to know that this package is
"metaconfig" ?  not obvious to me.

if you are me (and you aren't) you just run my 'homely' script that
plucks stuff out of a database that I keep of packages and their home
sites.  it's used to produce comp.archives; you could derive it from
comp.archives postings by inspecting the "Archive:" and "Archive-name"
headers.

	 <emv@msen> homely -s metaconfig
	 jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov /pub/dist.2.0/

(oh, I cheated a bit here, I didn't have this in the database...)

    P.S. You posted your request twice.  Tsk, tsk.

give the poor guy a break, you don't have to be so superior.

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 Msen	Edward Vielmetti
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	emv@msen.com
