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whats rewritten in perl

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Mar 14 18:18:10 1999

To: sipb-whats@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 14 Mar 1999 18:18:02 -0500

The urge to punt real work overcame me this afternoon, so I rewrote
"whats" in perl, making it sort entries and combine annotations.
[For instance,

; whats ibm
IBM     - Ingrained Batch Mentality
IBM     - International Brotherhood of Magicians
IBM     - International Business Machines [Corporate name]
IBM     - Itty Bitty Machines
IBM     - International Business Machines (manufacturer) 

becomes

; whats.pl ibm                   
IBM     - Ingrained Batch Mentality
IBM     - International Brotherhood of Magicians
IBM     - International Business Machines (manufacturer) [Corporate name]
IBM     - Itty Bitty Machines
]

The rewritten version is /mit/amu/scripts/whats.pl; unless somebody
objects in the next few days, I intend to replacs the existing script
in the sipb locker.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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