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Re: master files



On Friday 29 January 1999, at 0 h 13, the keyboard of 
stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Steve McIntyre) wrote:

> Hmmm. I'm struggling with parsing the master file, and I'm not a perl
> hacker enough to cope with the master2files stuff. Can you give me hand
> with a script to munge the list into a form I can use, please?

Which form do you like?

May be you forgot to run slice first (see the Makefile). "slice master" and you get master.i386, master.alpha, etc and they are more obvious to parse (line-oriented, ignore white lines, comments start with #).



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