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On Fri, 11 May 2001 13:23:44 CDT, "Michael T. Fay" <[log in to unmask]>  said:
> Is there a way to do a bulk update for a list from the command line? Is it
> documented and I'm just not finding it?
> I am assuming that it has something to do with lcmd, but I cannot find much
> about lcmd except for the lcmd info refcard, and that doesn't seem to have
> what I am looking for.

The trick is to realize that you can bulk load over the web - so all you need
is a little Perl or similar program that launches the correct HTTP/HTML
at the Listserv machine from the command line.  Took me all of an afternoon
to reverse-engineer it with tcpdump.


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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech

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