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Getting subscriber lists for BITNET lists
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Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 09:45:33 CDT
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Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
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Sender: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
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From: Ernest Perez <EPEREZ@UTDALLAS.BITNET>
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Subject: personal list 'address book'
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
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I've got a slight PC-based variation of Roy Tennant's informative April
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message about an easy way to search current list subscriber files. In effect,
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you can use such a file as a simple "address book" for email addresses of all
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list subscribers, and keep it on your PC.
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In his message, he described the very simple command procedure needed to
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obtain a copy of the complete PACS-L subscriber list, or one for any other
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list you're interested in getting...
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>I send a message to the LISTSERVs that host key library lists
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>(e.g., PACS-L) asking it to send me a list of subscribers. The LISTSERV
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>command is REV (for review) and the list name. For example, to get
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>the list of PACS-L subscribers, you would send the message REV PACS-L
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>to LISTSERV@UHUPVM1.BITNET
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>Then, when the file arrives in your e-mail you save it as a file in your
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>computer account. This file can then be searched for the occurrence of
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>a string with the "grep" command.
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[Here Roy goes into the details of using UNIX commands for searching the file
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stored on your host machine.]
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For handiness, and the ability to use the list offline, I decided to download
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to my IBM-persuasion PC, using the following general approach.
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1) Use Kermit to download file from UTDALLAS IBM host to my PC
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2) ZIP the text file down to a zipped (compressed) file, with PKZIP 1.1.
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3) Use Buerg's LIST file browser to inspect and search the file.
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E.g., Using LIST, to find 'Tennant' in the subscriber list, you press 'f'
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for FIND, and then enter 'tennant' in the prompt area. (it's case insensitive
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search) In case you find a false drop, press 'a' for AGAIN. Complicated
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syntax, what?
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LIST version 7.5g, which I currently use, has the ability to display and
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browse zipped files, and will do FAST string search of even a 241K file. I
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tried it as I wrote this, it took 5-6 seconds to unzip the file (in memory),
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and 3 seconds to search the entire file for a nonexistent string ('xxyyzz').
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LIST assumes you have PKUNZIP.COM and FV.COM in your path, to do the automatic
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in-memory unzipping. Both this programs are contained in the basic PKZIP
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self-extracting file that you get for using the ZIP utilities.
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Convenient, resident in my box, offline from the host, and comfortably small.
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The update for the PACS-L subscriber list which I downloaded today was 241K,
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and it zipped down to 83K, using the PKZIP default command mode.
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Great for when you're writing messages offline, and taking notes on who/where
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to send them. A nice side benefit is that the PACS-L subscriber list, at
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least, sorts the addresses alphabetically, by the host computer string (the
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address string after the '@' in the address). So all the addresses for a given
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host/organization are listed together.
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Both PKZIP and LIST utilities are shareware and available EVERYWHERE.
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Cheers,
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Ernest
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Ernest Perez, Ph.D
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Access Information Associates
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2183 Buckingham, Suite 106
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Richardson TX 75081
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214-530-4800
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INTERNET: eperez@utdallas.edu
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BITNET: eperez@utdallas
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