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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] help, i'm in a wet paper bag and I can't get out
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:25:18 +0200
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> no news is good news?

well, it's better than being the middle of a firefight...
err, flamewar.

> A basic irc bot that evals commands it's given with
> the permission & namespace of whoever started it.
> http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/chugly.rc

ok, will do.

i got it down to this as a mashfile:

for (i in contrib/*)
contrib.html : $i/li.html;

*/*/li.html :~ $1/$2/url { mash tools/c2li $1/$2 > $0 };
*/*/url :~ $1/$2/desc {};
*/*/desc :~ $1/$2/from {};
*/*/from :~ $1/$2/date {};

*.html :~ $1/0/url { cat $1/*/li.html > $0 };

default: index.html {};

index.html : head.html contrib.html tail.html { cat head.html contrib.html tail.html > index.html };

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the contrib directory has directories, named 0...n, which have these files:

     url
     desc [description]
     from
     date [rfc822/std11 date.  it's well known and can be parsed]
     li.html [this is the html <li> made out of the above files]

brucee gave me a bit of a hand, 'cos mash-mk is not mk or make.
i think he has a much better and simpler solution to the problem.