by Andrew Smallsha » Fri, 04 Sep 1998 04:00:00
The US Naval Observatory announced last night (that's Wednesday night,
to allow for propagation delays) that a leap second will be inserted at
midnight, December 31, to allow for the gradual slowdown in the period
of the Earth's rotation.
Yes, it's only a second, but no doubt it will come in handy for some
(literal) last-minuters. ;-)
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by -bill » Sat, 05 Sep 1998 04:00:00
-bill-
Technical Service Systems
1. Sounds trivial, but it's not (I don't think)
We use a shell script and UUCP to do an automated ascii upload to a
publishing system that is pretty void of any knowledge of
communications with the outside world.
At any rate, we have a /bin/sh script that basically does:
cu sysname <FILE
Where FILE is of the form:
~!/bin/slp10 #wait 10 seconds
piles of data to be uploaded
~!/bin/slp10 #wait another 10 seconds
~. #Hangup the telephone.
This has been somewhat reliable, but only allows for one file
per call. Given that there is a modem shortage on the remote end, this
is unacceptable.
So, does anyone have any ideas on how to do something like:
~!for a in `ls files`
... etc.
??
We're running on Xenix 2.3.3 if that makes a difference, using a TB+
over a 19200 serial line.
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