On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 05:33:49AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Sun 07 Mar 04, 4:06 AM, Mike Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Well I don't know about our archives stinking... > > grepmail on my 30 meg vox-tech archive takes a few seconds. > > well, i guess our archive are awesome. the search utility is *useless*. > it doesn't even always print mail correctly. don't GET me started... > > grepmail sounds interesting. from its name, i assume it knows mbox and > can print out entire messages based on grep patterns. does it thread?
yes, it prints out whole messages based on re's. basically I ran: grepmail -i latex vt | grepmail -i longtable (where "vt" is my local vox-tech archive) Of course it threads... grepmail -i latex vt | grepmail -i longtable > look_here && mutt -f look_here :) > > I think I've come to the conclusion that I'll tell latex to put a .5 > > inch boarder around the page, pick a readable font size, figure out how > > many lines fit in a given page, and have my perl stuff spit out long tables > > of the correct length for a page... using pagebreak when needed. > > sure. if you feel up to it, it might be nice to post a summary of your > task at hand and solution. prolly a lot of writing, but i'd sure be > interested in reading it. I figure if I get it working I'll post something about it... > > Also from reading over the archives, it seems to me that tex/latex is > > very stagnate. latex2e was released sometime in 1994 and version 3 > > project which started then... doesn't really have anything released. > > > > Sigh... > > true. the dev team is a little secretive. but here's what we can > expect from latex 3: > > http://www.latex-project.org/guides/ltx3info/node4.html Sounds like it will do my laundry too... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
