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From: Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com>
Subject: Re: nnml article filenames
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:30:01 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <microsoft-free.87slulepy0.fsf@youngs.au.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u7jbxonhp.fsf@cisco.com>

* Pranav K Tiwari <jpranav@cisco.com> writes:

  > To allow desktop search programs go through nnml articles, I would
  > like to give an extension like .xyz, and tell these programs to
  > treat these files like email.

I think this is the wrong approach.  Instead of modifying the
filenames to suit the search program, find a way to make the search
program work properly.

It's really not that difficult, see...

   $ find <nnmldir> -type f -regex '^.*[0-9]+$'

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-28 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28 12:05 Pranav K. Tiwari
2005-10-28 13:30 ` Steve Youngs [this message]
2005-10-31  5:29   ` Pranav K. Tiwari
2005-10-31  7:30     ` Steve Youngs
2005-10-31  9:13       ` Pranav K. Tiwari
2006-04-20  8:59         ` Pranav K. Tiwari

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