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  From: Geoffrey D. Bennett <g@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : RedBeard <bigguy@student.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 15:55:25 +0930 (CST)

Re: Unidentified subject!

> Geoff, you obviously have way too much time on your hands...

No, but...

> compiling
> statistics on the ages of documentation on your RedHat CD??

...the howto-4.2-2 package and the kernel source were already
installed...

> Though, you
> probably saved heaps of time by writing a simple perl script which does it
> for you, and that only took four hours...   ;)

...and I didn't even need to use Perl.  The calculations on the dates
of the HOWTO documents were done with a for loop, zcat, head, grep,
and a couple of s/// commands in vi followed by figuring out the
percentages with bc.  The calculations on the dates of the kernel docs
were even easier: find, grep, and wc, followed by bc again.

Regards,
-- 
Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/redhat/