The artrate program reads the INN "server.log" file and generates an
output file or files which reflect the rate at which incoming articles
were received.

The artrate.pl program was a test to see if doing this in PERL would be
faster. It wasn't, at least using [ngm]awk as the AWK, by about a factor
of 4-5.

Example:

$ cd LOGFILES
$ for n in 4 3 2 1; do
>   zcat OLD/server.log.$n
> done | artrate -
Start date Aug004
Start date Aug005
Start date Aug006
Start date Aug007
Start date Aug008
$

Output files generated will be named artrate_xy.MMM0NN where MMM is the
month name and NN is the day of the month. A future release will use
YYNNDD notition, but there's a bug in that one right now.

The PERL version works the same way, but slower.

Tested on: AIX, Linux, SCO ODT.
Reported working on: Solaris, OSF/1

README 1.1 1995/09/23 11:25:48 davidsen Exp
