[13394] in Athena Bugs
stock answers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucien Van Elsen)
Tue Apr 4 10:17:21 1995
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 10:17:02 -0400
From: lucien@smarts.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
To: iggy@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-olc@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9504030355.AA03493@unca-donald.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: lucien@smarts.com
iggy@MIT.EDU writes:
> What does it take to update the stock answers within eolcr at the same
> time that olc_answers are updated?
> Are they simply files that could be symlinked together?
> does it take someone with the right bits copying the files to the
> right place?
> Most consultants use eolcr. When the answers aren't in that tree we
> can't copy them to the messages we send people, esp. when we are
> doing olc stuff over dialup/telnet. Also, when we say "look here"
> sometimes we are giving the wrong path. It's kind of ridiculous and
> really bad customer relations.
> I don't have time, but I'm willing to update the eolcr files, esp. if
> all it takes is copying the files to the right place.
Hmm- at IBM, there was a perl script run as a cron job that would update
the eolcr index every night. I forget whether it was something I
brought from MIT or not, but it wasn't very complicated-
-Lucien
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