Re: Grind.isca.uiowa.edu apple2/ oops!

[dmz@cco.caltech.edu (Daniel Zimmerman)]

taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao) writes:

>In article <1994Jan10.035911.18268@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, Steven Nelson writes...
>> 
>>  The upload/ dir should be read/writable now.  But if I move them out like
>> I have been doing, you still won't know what is new.

>    On io.org (no, it's not back yet folks, sorry), I have a directory
>called /pub/apple2/Uploads and another called /pub/apple2/New.  Uploads
>are unverified contributions (i.e., download at your own risk).  Once I
>check out the archive integrity with nulib, I move the them into their
>appropriate directory in the hierarchy.  Then I make a hard link to the
>New/ directory.  That way the file appears in both places without taking
>up any hard drive space.  When a file is no longer considered "new",
>just delete the link and the original file remains where it belongs.

Gee, this sounds familiar ;)    I do the same thing on cco.caltech.edu... In
fact, over the past couple of months I've changed the directory hierarchy on
CCO a bit to make it easier to find certain things (including a new /music
hierarchy, a new /graphics hierarchy, a new /shellutils directory for GNO and
ORCA utilities, and more... :)  Plus, as always, the /NEW.FILES and /HOT.FILES
directories... 

Also, some of you were talking about indexing - if someone could provide me
with a program which would allow me to tag files with index lines, or
automatically create index files, I would be more than happy to use it (even
if it required a bit of grunge work to get index entries down for the existing
files)... It'd take a bit of time to implement, but it's definitely do-able...
(If I have too much spare time sometime, maybe I'll write a program like this
myself.... But with 54 units this term, it's not likely it'll be anytime soon.)

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