Subj : RE: A new project
To : Sean Dennis
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Mon May 07 2018 07:22 am
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 :)
