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I've become more than a little bit frustrated with our friend, ixBuild.  All I  
want to do is something like

ixBuild -d basename

But the -d switch doesn't seem to do what the man file claims.. It doesn't send  
any parameters of value, most notably not the name of the file being  
processed..

-r doesn't seem to work either.. I try to send it a list like

pathname descriptor\n
pathname descriptor\n

And it worked on the first filename, and then failed on the second line: it  
thought that I meant "pathname descriptor" as the pathname.. (I.e. it didn't  
recognize the white space in the second line).

Is anyone following me?  What the heck is going on?  Should I just give up on  
ixBuild as a lousy program that was never debugged except to the extent that  
the Digital Librarian interface needed it, or am I just missing something?  Who  
has used this successfully?  My goal is to use it with Gopher, if that sparks  
anyone's memories..
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Paul Hagstrom
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