On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, C^2 wrote:
>Actually, the solution would depend on your skills. An alternative to
>coding db.c would be to write a sed or awk script. Both of these are
>actually quite easy to use and extremely powerful. I would suggest the
>book unix in a nutshell for anyone who does any work in the unix
>environment. I was forced to do shell scripting in my c++ class and found
>that extremely powerful scripts can be writen in less than 15 minutes.
>Hope this helps give you some alternatives.
The db.c change will be < 10 lines (typically) and you don't need to debug
a separate script or keep it around to convert zones later.
(I've done the changes many times, it's simple.)
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http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard
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