Short: 1.2 - Process posts of Aminet MailLists Author: Marcin Orlowski Uploader: Marcin Orlowski Type: comm/misc Replaces: comm/misc/AminetFilter.* Www: http://amiga.com.pl AminetFilter is the small tool which was designed to process Aminet recents especially those from Aminet-daily / Aminet-weekly mailing lists. I myself am completely not interested in some kind of uploads as their category lies far behind my interests (yes, "mods/techno" is one of them). However I can simply skip them myself reading the recent, they are just unnecesary junk in my recent. Unfortunately Aminet MLs are not configurable so I had to find out other way to avoid that junk. And Aminet Filter was born. It's very simple tool, but it does what it was designed for. Filter reads any file (ASCII, containing Aminet Recents are sugested ;-) compares every Recent's entry with the pattern and removes it if matches. Filter is smart enough to process only Recent's entries, leaving any headers (e.g. mail headers) and footers (e.g. MOTD) untouched. Theoretically it should make no change to files containing no Recent. I use Aminet Filter together with small script for YAM which among other things automatically process New mails. Now my Recents are much better ;-) HISTORY --------- v1.0 - initial release v1.1 - fixed small flaw, making AF saying there's 1 file on empty Recents - ARexx script (YAM) for automatic mail filtering is now enclosed - new switch COMPACT -> makes Filter's report a little bit smaller v1.2 - Now works about 50% faster! - Buffered I/O used. New switch: BUFFERSIZE - new switch: IGNOREBLANKS - More secure renaming scheme implemened. The original file will not be deleted if any more if the final Rename() failed. - prints error messages to the standard output (redirect it to NIL: if you don't need that info) ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 669 321 52.0% 18-Apr-98 10:56:40 AminetFilter.info 1986 1053 46.9% 18-Apr-98 10:52:14 AminetFilter.readme 12072 7646 36.6% 18-Apr-98 10:54:48 +AminetFilter 9398 3766 59.9% 18-Apr-98 10:58:34 +AminetFilter.doc 1104 364 67.0% 18-Apr-98 10:56:40 +AminetFilter.doc.info 835 398 52.3% 18-Apr-98 10:56:40 +AminetFilter.info 669 326 51.2% 18-Apr-98 10:56:40 +ARexx.info 1677 858 48.8% 18-Apr-98 10:35:38 +wfmh_custom_filters.rexx 464 244 47.4% 02-Sep-97 22:37:30 +wfmh_custom_filters.rexx.info 669 329 50.8% 18-Apr-98 10:56:40 +Dos.info 285 204 28.4% 18-Apr-98 10:34:54 +AminetFilter.dos 464 233 49.7% 18-Apr-98 10:36:14 +AminetFilter.dos.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 30292 15742 48.0% 18-Apr-98 17:26:02 12 files