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    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 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 Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Janis Kracht on Sun Jul 7 11:48:04 2019
    Hello Janis,

    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 would certainly give it a shot. Netmail or email me at agianson@gmail.com.

    Netmail will usually get my attention before email.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Alan Ianson on Sun Jul 7 16:59:18 2019
    Hi Alan!

    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 would certainly give it a shot. Netmail or email me at agianson@gmail.com.

    Netmail will usually get my attention before email.

    Thank you so much, Alan... netmail will be on the way shortly :) :)

    Take care and thanks again,
    Janis

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