[KLUG Members] datafile format unknown

[Adam Williams]

>In trying to learn more about elisp, the lisp language used to implement 
>and extend Emacs, I want to use the Lisp Code Directory which I have 
>downloaded and gunzipped.  The directory file is a normal text file but 
>in a format that must conform to some database system, as becomes clear 
>when you see the head of the file:
>Name|Author|Contact|Description|Date|Version|Archive
>1char|Bard Bloom|bard@cs.cornell.edu|Commands to fix typos in the
>     previous word with minimal typing.|13-Jul-1990||~/misc/1char.el.Z
>24-hour-time|Johan Vromans|jv@mh.nl|Adds 24 time display capability to
>     time.el.|18-Nov-1992||~/patches/24-hour-time.el.Z
>8-bit-pat|Christopher A. North-Keys|harp@mcc.com|Gives Emacs 18.55 8-bit
>     compatibility|11-May-1990||~/misc/8-bit.patches.Z
>8bits-mode|Cedric BEUST|beust@sophia.inria.fr|Mode to type 8 bit
>     characters as diacritics|20-Dec-93|1.4|~/modes/8bits-mode.el.gz
>Any suggestions as to how to print this data out in readable form?

Looks like a pipe delimited file to me. Can be imported in just about any 
spreadsheet,  accessed via the ODBC TXT driver, or you could just write an 
awk script (the printf function there will let you set a column width, 
alignment, etc...).

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