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    From Janis Kracht@3:640/1321 to All on Sat Jul 6 22:46:40 2019
    Hi everyone,

    When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz, etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc.

    I'll be happy to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where they store the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have be rewritten, but at least it's a place to start if someone can take of the NASA fdn :)

    Let me know here, or email me at janis@filegate.net.

    Thanks so much,
    Janis

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  • From Mike Miller@3:640/1321 to Janis Kracht on Sun Jul 7 23:04:58 2019
    Hello, Janis Kracht.
    On 7/6/19 10:41 PM you wrote:

    Hi everyone, When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA
    picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that
    would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with
    sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz,
    etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc. I'll be happy
    to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so
    it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where
    they store the pic of the day, etc. etc... so much of it will have
    be rewritten, but at least it's a place to start if someone can
    take of the NASA fdn :) Let me know here, or email me at janis@filegate.net.
    I know very little about hatching files, but I do know bash. If no one else steps up this is something I can take a look at.
    --
    Mike
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  • From Janis Kracht@3:640/1321 to Mike Miller on Mon Jul 8 11:21:44 2019
    Hi Mike!

    Hi everyone, When I convinced Ben Ritchey to take on the NASA
    picture of the day stuff, I wrote a script for him in bash that
    would automatically grab the latest file, trim the extra text with
    sed, and finally zip the pic of the day, create a file_id.diz,
    etc. He modified it to work on his system/OS, etc. I'll be happy
    to send this script to anyone running Linux who can modify it so
    it works "today"... since I wrote the script, nasa has moved where
    [...]

    I know very little about hatching files, but I do know bash. If no one else steps up this is something I can take a look at.

    Thank you so much Mike, we have the NASA picture of the day covered now, I was going to post about that first thing this AM and _then_ I overslept this AM!! <g>. I was up a bit late night working on this stuff.

    Alan Ianson will be taking care of NASA's picture of the day..

    He hatched his first file late last night just before I headed off to sleep (YAY) and then I worked with someone else who is looking at the echolist software.

    That still leaves some other File echos we can look at, and discuss in the FILEGATE message echo :)

    Take care,
    Janis

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