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Message   Robert Wolfe    Sean Dennis   RE: A new project   May 7, 2018
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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!!!!
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