all- our submission for the mac os x drawing with oreilly and associates in mr. matthew genelin. best of luck to mr. genelin in the final drawing for the mac os x conference. for those of you interested in the logistics of picking the winner, i grepped my tcwug mailbox for from: entries from the past few months the output was then munged as follows... egrep -ih '^from: ' * > ~/foo grep -v sulrich foo > bar ; mv bar foo perl -pi.bak -e 's/from: //' foo perl -pi.bak -e 's/\"//g' foo perl -pi.bak -e 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' foo sort foo | uniq > bar ; mv bar foo ./rand-pick.pl foo rand-pick.pl is attached for those of you curious as to the technique used to select a random name. i realize that this doesn't remove all duplicates and would tend to reward those that post from a variety of addresses but i figure what the heck reward those folks that post frequently with slightly better odds. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rand-pick.pl Type: application/x-perl Size: 396 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20020807/e5436c22/rand-pick.bin