better use of `prog' on archie ...

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From: Cameron Simpson
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 08:15

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johnd@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (John Dodson) writes:
| I would not mind betting that the following is what the majority of archie
| users do... (despite there being better tools available)
| 
| $ archie
[...]
| archie> prog whatever
| 
| [here archie grinds away then outputs ~30 pages of ftp sites & files]
| [the user only sees the last few on screen & ftp's to one of those]

It would be nice to be able to say something like:

	archie> mailprog cameron@cs.unsw.oz.au
	archie> prog thing1
	searching... blah blah blah ...
	sending results of search to cameron@cs.unsw.oz.au
	archie> prog otherthing
	searching... blah blah blah ...
	sending results of search to cameron@cs.unsw.oz.au

and so forth. I _don't_ take the last few screens; I almost always use `mail'
to send off the complete query so I can peruse it easily. A pger isn't what I
want; I want a terse way to do the query.

Mayhap I can use prospero direct? Am I asking the wrong question?
	- Cameron Simpson
	  cameron@cs.unsw.oz.au

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From: cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Cameron Simpson)
Subject: better use of `prog' on archie ...
Message-ID: <1992Oct6.081543.1330@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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Summary: offer a prog which mails rather than displays
Keywords: paging mail archie prog search
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Organization: CS&E Computing Facility, Uni Of NSW, Oz
References: <1992Sep21.010413.23270@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Sep21.215659.6076@newshost.anu.edu.au> <johnd.717206891@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au>
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