Grex Info Conference

View Responses

Grex Info Item 266: How do you get a list of people who have joined a confrence?
Entered by kain on Sun Nov 5 17:09:24 UTC 1995:

How do you tell who has joined a certin confrence is there a way to get a
list?

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by davel on Sun Nov 5 21:00:26 1995:

There's a way, & I thought I remembered it - but I seem to be wrong.  I'm
sure someone will post the command.  But there are some things you should
be aware of.  It apparently works by looking for users with participation
files for the conference in question.  THIS IS PROHIBITIVELY SLOW, given
the system speed and number of users, & probably resource-intensive enough
to drag others down a bit too.  I'm also not sure whether it  will find
users who have depermitted their directories so others can't read them.
(Or, rather, I'm fairly sure it won't find them.)

In the absence of the specific Picospan command, you could accomplish
the same thing - subject to the same limitations - with a Unix
find command.  (Use the -mount option, I'd say, & try to make it
smart enough not to look arbitrarily deep or anything, OK?  I think
the participation file if it exists should be either directly in the user's
home directory or in a dir called .cfdir directly under that.)

#2 of 6 by orinoco on Sun Nov 5 22:09:08 1995:

alternately, you could search item and response headers for names, but that
could get slow also.

#3 of 6 by popcorn on Mon Nov 6 05:20:51 1995:

This response has been erased.

#4 of 6 by srw on Mon Nov 6 08:04:54 1995:

That's a real good way. (11 people in fun, by the way)

#5 of 6 by remmers on Mon Nov 6 13:11:19 1995:

The official command to list participants in a conference is--are
you ready?--the PARTICIPANT command. Just type "participant" at
the "Ok:" prompt. You can abbreviate it as "part". Dave's
description in #1 is correct, and it *is* very slow. It gives
a bit more information than the "locate" command--it shows when
each participant last read anything in the conference.

#6 of 6 by davel on Mon Nov 6 15:16:37 1995:

None of these (except, pending the next build of the locate database, the
locate one) will show those who have joined and then resigned, of course.

Thanks, John.  I couldn't remember, & what I did misremember ("members") is
linked to the Grex membership list program.  I never can remember how I
got to that help file with all the commands & their abbreviations listed,
& "help misc" (though documented) is still broken.  <sigh>

Response not possible - You must register and login before posting.