On 05 Oct 2003 01:41:38, Alan Ianson wrote to Bob Swift:

 AI> I lost a hard drive a couple days ago so
 AI> I've lost my linux system for the time being.

Ouch!  Been there in the past.  It sucks.

 AI> I don't know anything about perl. Is there
 AI> a perl interpreter for Windows??

Sure is.  I think I got my version from ActiveState, but the easiest way to
find it is by browsing http://www.cpan.org and follow the links from there.

 AI>> It would be a bonus if I could somehow get an html
 AI>> index also.

 BS>> That should be easy enough to add to the script.

 AI> If it could be done I'd like a all/newfiles list
 AI> that looks like the one I have now (made by AMU).

Sorry, I'm not clear on this.  Do you mean the text list format or the html
list format (or both).  I just tried to browse to trmb.thebbs.org but
couldn't connect, so I'm guessing that you're not serving html pages at
this time (because the address resolved okay).

 AI> At the moment, I don't have any files at all in
 AI> the filebase, but in a week or so I'll post a
 AI> short example of the list.

Super, thanks.  In the mean time, I'll start work on the script.  If you
didn't want to post the info here, you could email it to me at 1:342/5.

 BS>> The system here carries the full FileGate distribution
 BS>> (plus some other old files), to the tune of 1070 areas
 BS>> and 66,905 files (27,596 Mb).  The AllFiles list
 BS>> itself is over 14 Mb in size, so the script has so far 
 BS>> been able to handle the big numbers.

 AI> Wow, that is quite an archive, I must logon.. :)

I also carry the full echo list distribution (about 1400 areas), but if
you're just wanting to check out the file stuff, you're probably better off
coming at the site via anonymous ftp to ftp.powerstationbbs.ca rather than
telnetting in to the bbs.

 BS>> I assume that you'd be willing to test it and help
 BS>> sort out the bugs and features?

 AI> Sure, I love messing with these things..

Thanks.

 AI> If there is a perl interpreter for windows it would be
 AI> helpful to a wide rage of folks..

There is.  See www.cpan.org for the links (and a whole bunch of other great stuff).

Bob

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