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Re: master files



In article <m2n.s.1999012909293726497@sadcompscis.demon.co.uk> you write:
>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 #).

Doh! Yes, I completely missed the slice thing. OK, I should be able to
cope now. Thanks.

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