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|    Robert Wolfe to Sean Dennis    |
|    A new project    |
|    07 May 18 07:22:26    |
      On May 07, 2018 07:03am, Sean Dennis wrote to Andrew Haworth:               SD> Somewhere around here someone wrote a nice little script in something (I        SD> suspect Python) that pulled info out of a RSS feed and converted it to        SD> text. I'd known about the expect program for Tcl but had never worked        SD> with it. It was the interesting use of sed (and its "in-place"        SD> capability) that I had to dig for.              Yeah, they were CNN and Fox News RSS feed pullers for Mystic written in       Python. I took the same script and converted it so that it generates the       bulletins in Wildcat! @-code format vs Mystic pipe code colors. Works quite       well, too. I need to put that back on my WINServer rebuild :)              ... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!       --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5        * Origin: Omicron Theta (1:116/17)    |
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