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From: [e-mail] (steve belczyk)
Subject: Re: Uqwk error!! Help before they hang me!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (USENET News System)
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 16:24:17 GMT
Lines: 15

In article <[e-mail]>,
Andre Bell <[e-mail]> wrote:
> uqwk: Mailing to abell
>(Resetting uid)
>queuename: Cannot create "qf~Z24395" in "/usr/spool/mqueue": No such file
> or directory

This looks to me like a local configuration problem with the mailer.
Apparently it can't create the mail queue file (as opposed to the mail
spool file).  It looks like some sort of permissions problem maybe.

You might try configuring uqwk to use a different mailer, like elm,
maybe.  Change the definition of MAILER_PATH in uqwk.h and re-make uqwk.

- steve belczyk
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From: [e-mail] (James Hermann)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Yarn Keyword Search
Date: 4 Mar 1994 18:28:37 GMT
Organization: InterAccess, Chicagoland's Full Service Internet Provider
Lines: 7
Message-ID: <2l7ukl$[e-mail]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: home.interaccess.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

How can I do a multiple keyword search with YARN?

I need to be able to search all my messages for
a list of keywords.

Jim

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From: [e-mail] (David A Yon)
Subject: Re: Windows, Netcom, and offline readers...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <2l7iuo$[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 1994 23:28:58 GMT
Lines: 18

In article <2l7iuo$[e-mail]>, Doug Sewell <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>(I'm not a big BBS-er/CIS-er/etc, so I'd only be using it for e-mail on a
>dial-up internet system where I work).
>
    If email is all you're interested in, and your internet system is
a un*x or vms box (or even something else), check out RFD Mail.  This is a
windows offline mail reader/composer which uses user-writable scripts to
interface to dialup mail services.  It comes packaged with un*x and vms
scripts, which are typically very easy to tweak for various systems.  You do
not need POP or UQWK on the system, only the standard mail program and a file
transfer command (sz/rz work just fine).  It can be anon-ftp'ed from
world.std.com:/src/pc/email/rfdmail.zip, and the shareware registration
fee is only $29.95.

David
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Joseph Doo)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Win offline news reader
Date: 5 Mar 1994 04:02:40 GMT
Organization: Technet, Singapore
Lines: 1
Message-ID: <2l9090$[e-mail]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: solomon.technet.sg
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]

Can someone recommend a Windows offline news reader?
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From: [e-mail] (Laurence Chiu)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: Where can I find YARN?
Date: 4 Mar 1994 23:42:24 -0800
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access, California
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Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com

In article <[e-mail]>, Steve Brenner wrote:
:Does anyone know where I can get a copy of YARN?
:

I just picked up a copy from oak.oakland.edu in pub/msdos/offline I
think (well there may be some nodes between there but once you get
there you can find it). The latest version is 0.57 which alas has a
few annoying bugs in it.

    +==================================================+
    | Laurence Chiu         | Walnut Creek, California |
    | Tel: [phone](wk) | Internet: [e-mail]  |
    +==================================================+
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From: [e-mail] (Laurence Chiu)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: Yarn Keyword Search
Date: 4 Mar 1994 23:42:26 -0800
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access, California
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Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <2l7ukl$[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com

In article <2l7ukl$[e-mail]>, James Hermann wrote:
: How can I do a multiple keyword search with YARN?
:
: I need to be able to search all my messages for
: a list of keywords.

YOu cannot as far as I am aware. Also what I find annoying is if you
do a search and find something, if you repeat the search it does not
skip the entry already found but just stays there. You have to move
the cursor one entry down and restart the search.

    +==================================================+
    | Laurence Chiu         | Walnut Creek, California |
    | Tel: [phone](wk) | Internet: [e-mail]  |
    +==================================================+
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From: [e-mail] (Pete Farrell)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: Block count exceeded
Date: 5 Mar 1994 01:17:29 -0600
Organization: Solid Systems, Inc. - Austin, TX
Lines: 50
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <2l33mg$[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
NNTP-Posting-Host: zoom.bga.com

In article <[e-mail]>, Stan Koper wrote:
> In article <2l33mg$[e-mail]>, Michael N Barnes wrote:
> > I was trying out Yarn for the first time and after I had set it up and logged
> > back on to my Internet server: the following transpired:
> >
> > UQWK +n +L
> > UQWK newsgroup.foobar
> > UQWK newsgroup.foobar1
> > UQWK: block count exdeeded; some areticles not packed.
> >
> >
> > I subscribe to 42 newsgroups and I only received two.
> >
> > I think that there is a default to set somewhere to change this, but am not
> > sure where it is.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> I have 51 or so newsgroups in my .newsrc file, and what I do is
> zip up the messages collected thus far, using the -m switch, and
> then run uqwk again, repeating the process until I get a system
> prompt without the "block count exceeded" message.
>
> I differentiate each zipped file by the day's date and a
> letter, e.g., 303a.zip, 303b.zip, 303c.zip.  Each file is about
> 220k compressed, and on a busy day, or if I've been away for a
> while, it can go up to *l.zip or even *m.zip.
>
> Stan Koper
> [e-mail]
>
>       This message brought to you by uqwk 1.7 and Yarn 0.57

In the uqwk man page the -Bmaxblocks option is documented. maxblocks
is the number of 128 byte blocks used to limit the size of packets of
messages. The default is usually 4000 blocks (about 1/2 MB). You can
either set this to a larger number or put in 0. The 0 will turn this
feature off and there will be no limit to the size of the packets
generated.

Example:  uqwk +n +L -B0


Pete Farrell                    Solid Systems, Inc.
Voice:    [phone]                3913 Todd Lane, Suite 310
Fax:    [phone]                Austin, TX 78744
Email:    [e-mail]    <--- finger for PGP public key
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From: [e-mail] (Steve Brenner)
Subject: Where can I find YARN?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Prototype Eugene Free Net
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 10:10:45 GMT
Lines: 13

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of YARN?


Steve



-------------------- \\\\\\\\\///////// ----------------------------
Stephen A. Brenner - Visions in America - Internet: [e-mail]
-------------------- /////////\\\\\\\\\ ----------------------------

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From: [e-mail] (Todd A. Scalzott)
Subject: Macintosh offline reader?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (Todd A. Scalzott)
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Organization: NETCOM On-line services
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 12:45:15 GMT
Lines: 10


Is there anything out there to allow the offline reading of news on a
macintosh?  Ideally, this would be capable of running on a powerbook.

Thanks.
--

Todd Scalzott, Systems Programmer     [e-mail]  / [e-mail]
Kastle Development Associates         ...!netcom!friend!todd


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Kilday)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: Problem with ZipNews or uqwk
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 09:02:36 -0500 (EST)
References: <2l2qvk$[e-mail]>
Organization: The Northern Lights BBS, Portland, ME  * 207-761-4782 *
Lines: 29
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: ZipNews Reader/Mailer v0.92xf (Beta)

In article <2l2qvk$[e-mail]> [e-mail] writes:

> I wanted to try out ZipNews, as it now has international character
> support (no more damn sigmas in finnish articles, whee). So I created
> a ZipNews package with uqwk 1.8, and got a bunch of *msg files and
> s106275.idx, s106275.jn, s106275.nws. Of these, s106275.idx and
> s106275.nws had a lenght of zero. Is this right? For when I packed
> them to a file voltti.zns, ZipNews unpacks it fine, but I can't read
> any articles. The article selection screen shows zero available
> articles.

Anssi, check your setup for where you are pointing uqwk to look for
the news.  The ZipNews packet is not being properly assembled if you
are coming up with a 0-length .nws file.

Also, I wanted to mention to you and others who might be interested in a
bug fix release for int'l charcacter set handling (and a few enhancements),
you should try to get znr92xf.zip.   You may obtain it via anon FTP from
ftp.gte.com: /pub/incoming/znr92xf.zip  OR  /pub/zipnews/znr92xf.zip.
It is also available to first-time callers via modem to my BBS.

(The latest wide-area beta release is still znr092x.zip, having no
capability for international character sets -- ISO-8859/1 compatibility,
etc.)

--
Jack Kilday                |             [e-mail]
The Northern Lights BBS    |                    -=-
207-761-4782 (v.32bis/HST) | 4-Nodes, 700 Megs * Internet: UUCP, FTP, Telnet
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From: [e-mail] (mg)
Subject: Re: Where can I find YARN?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (mg)
Organization: 33.32.21.32.42.slam.dunk
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 13:13:17 GMT
Lines: 11

In article <[e-mail]>, Steve Brenner wrote:
->Does anyone know where I can get a copy of YARN?
->
You can find it at oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/offline. The current
version is yarn-057.zip


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From: [e-mail] (Michael E. Perry)
Subject: Robomail - A Glowing Review
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 17:34:29 GMT
Lines: 20


Hi all:
Although not given to reviews, I would like to offer a positive vote for
robomail.  For a small evaluation fee, you get a product that really
manages your mail.  I like the database approach that Parsons TEchnology
has applied.  Anyone looking for a simple and complex offliner could not
do better.  Future versions will support news reading also.
On a different note, has anyone in netland heard of a offliner called
Cybermail or something like that?  It lists for almost 180.00 and
promises a windows environment for dial up access.  No small shareware
registration price, eh?  It advertises to dial up your unix provider,
extract both mail and news, allow GUI FTP and TELNET.  Anybody know of a
qwk compatible mailreader in sharewareland that does these things?
Imagine that - a Windows GUI for the dial up masses.  Kinda hefty cost
for this miserly human being, though BG :)
Mike
--

Mike Perry
[e-mail]
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From: "Thomas J. Brucia" <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Seeking "The Book"....
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 05:51:15 -0600
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link
Lines: 3
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: worldlink.com
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.6.1)

I am seeking a good book (or several) about off-line readers.
Something written for an intermediate level user (not for writing code or
anything that technical!).  Any recommendations?
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From: "Rick Adams" <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 94 14:59:36 -0500
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
References: <2l9090$[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Win offline news reader
Organization: Social Issues Online
X-Newsreader: Helldiver 1.07 (Waffle 1.65)
Lines: 18

In <2l9090$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Joseph Doo) writes:

>Can someone recommend a Windows offline news reader?

    Sure, Helldiver.

    It's well designed, powerful, efficient, and has a very good
interface. About the only problems I've encountered with it are lack of
word wrap (or the ability to define your own editor instead of the standard
one) and an inability to delete over 100 email messages at a time, neither of
which is a major problem.

--
    =*= [e-mail] =*= Rick Adams =*= [e-mail] =*=
 The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member
 of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His
 own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant =*= J.S. Mill
     =*= Department of Social Sciences =*= Jackson Community College =*=
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From: [e-mail] (Frank McNeil)
Subject: Re: Robomail - A Glowing Review
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (Frank McNeil)
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 1994 22:17:54 GMT
Lines: 85

In article <[e-mail]>, Michael E. Perry wrote:
>
>Hi all:
>Although not given to reviews, I would like to offer a positive vote for
>robomail.  For a small evaluation fee, you get a product that really
>manages your mail.  I like the database approach that Parsons TEchnology
>has applied.  Anyone looking for a simple and complex offliner could not
>do better.  Future versions will support news reading also.

???

>On a different note, has anyone in netland heard of a offliner called
>Cybermail or something like that?  It lists for almost 180.00 and
>promises a windows environment for dial up access.  No small shareware
>registration price, eh?  It advertises to dial up your unix provider,
>extract both mail and news, allow GUI FTP and TELNET.  Anybody know of a
>qwk compatible mailreader in sharewareland that does these things?
>Imagine that - a Windows GUI for the dial up masses.  Kinda hefty cost
>for this miserly human being, though BG :)
>Mike
>--
>
>Mike Perry
>[e-mail]

Hello,

QUESTION 1:
  Have you found a simple way to use USENET incompatible readers such
as robomail so that headers aren't truncated?  I would like to try
robomail, but won't because I *assume* that my follow up posts to a
thread will start a new thread because the header gets truncated.

AM I WRONG?

  [I'm glad that people ask and answer questions on USENET with these
  great BBS offline reader products.  But I get irritated when an
  important follow up poster creates a new thread because he/she doesn't
  use a USENET compatible reader.  I don't think new users should use
  these USENET incompatible newsreaders if they can help it.  They
  should use Zipnews, Unor, Yarn or some other compatible reader.  I
  understand there's only so much time in a day and if you already use
  an incompatible reader like robomail great.  EVENTUALLY they may add
  USENET compatibility.]

QUESTION 2:
  Can you use robomail to export your incoming USENET articles into
Dbase or Paradox?  Yarn can't do that.

CyberDesk Comments:
  I agree that CyberDesk pricing policy means that many internet users
won't even consider it, since they already have a communication program
and offline reader.  Later on when other programs like "Internet In a
Box" become available (in book stores?) people who want the Cyberdesk
like capabilities will buy that product or write their own
communication script files instead of buying a product they can't see
demonstrated or read an item by item comparison.

  Personally I want some of the Cyberdesk like capabilities and will
consider purchasing a different communications program if it had a
better script language than procomm plus 2.01 (which doesn't have a
screen painter so I can easily create menus and dialog boxes).  So when
I add that $100 plus to the cost of Yarn 1.00 or some other offline
reader I come up to the same price.  Therefore the price isn't
unreasonable and I would consider purchasing it for myself or others
AFTER I'VE READ A SERIOUS REVIEW.  But for the time being I'm looking
into using MULTI-EDIT Communications Module from American Cybernetics,
Inc. to give me some of the Cyberdesk like capabilities (I assume they
will add a Windows version in April).

  IMO Cyberdesk is a very important program because it points out that
users can automate many of their tasks with dos or windows scripting
language.  However, IMO the pricing strategy is aimed at Corporations
that buy multiple copies/licenses and not the average Internet USER.


Frank,



+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Frank McNeil        | The Foolish man doesn't learn from his mistakes. |
| [e-mail] | The Average man learns from his mistakes.        |
| Tax Code Junkie     | The Wise man learns from other peoples mistakes. |
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From: [e-mail] (Graham Dunn)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: pack failed
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 21:19:26 -0500
Organization: Health Canada
Lines: 46
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <2l364g$[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpb.hwc.ca
Originator: [e-mail]

In article <2l364g$[e-mail]>, Michael N Barnes wrote:
> Another little problem
>
> I composed mail from within Yarn and tried to send it.  I received the
> following message:  pack failed c:\upload\ioxr.zip
>
> I checked for a dir named upload and could not find one.  the message was
> saved to a folder named message.
>
> Am I supposed to create the directory named c:\upload, or am I missing something
> here?
>
> Yarn User Manual ver 0.57 provided me with no insight

I think you're supposed to specify which directory you would like
your replies to be zipped into. This is in your config file under
\USER\yarn

eg: my config file is set to d:\upload. This directory must
pre-exist or be created by you.

# yarn configuration file
# Lines in this file beginning with # are comments.
# Lines that end with \ are continued on the next line.

[snip snip snip for brevity]

# editor program
editor=c:\util\qedit\q.exe

# SOUP reply packet containing outgoing messages
reply=d:\upload\up

# compress program
compress=c:\util\pk\pkzip -m %f %d\*.*

# uncompress program
uncompress=c:\util\pk\pkunzip -o %f %d

[snip again]

With regards to the manual, I will agree that it *perhaps* could
use some clearing up...

Regards,
Graham
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Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: UQWK selected articles
From: [e-mail] (Stuart Foster)
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 21:27:46 +1200
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, NZ.
Lines: 10

In article <[e-mail]>, steve belczyk wrote:
> Read the descriptions of the -U and -E switches in the uqwk
> man page.

Incidently, Why does the selection mode only work for QWK packets ?
(Or am I just having problems again ?  I haven't had any luck using -U
or -E with SOUP mode).

Thanks
stuf
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From: [e-mail] (Darrell Shandrow)
Subject: Yarn and bios output?
Sender: [e-mail] (Internet Direct News)
Organization: Internet Direct Inc [phone]
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 06:41:44 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Lines: 11

Hello.  I now have Yarn setup on my system.  However, I am a blind user
and would like to have it be able to write the articles out to bios.
Tracking is pretty good already.  Any wishes to have a speech friendly
option?  It doesn't look like it would be that difficult.  73


--
Darrell Shandrow at Arizona State University
Member: National Federation of the Blind
"Proud, Angry, and Strong" --  quoted from Jennifer Restle
(The complete information access agenda - You print it you braille it too!)
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From: [e-mail] (Chin Huang)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Yarn v0.58 released - SOUP offline reader for MS-DOS and OS/2
Date: 5 Mar 1994 11:46:16 -0500
Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416-363-3783)
Lines: 18
Message-ID: <2lad0o$[e-mail]>
NNTP-Posting-Host: r-node.io.org

Yarn is a suite of programs used to store and read USENET news and mail
offline.  The supported platforms are MS-DOS character mode and OS/2 2.x
character mode.

In this release, some command keys in the reader have been rearranged to
be more consistent across different command levels.  The command keys more
closely resemble the UNIX tin news reader commands.  I also fixed a bug
in which no output was visible from the spell check program.

The MS-DOS version has been uploaded to
    oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/offline/yarn-058.zip
(and SimTel mirror sites).

The OS/2 2.x version has been uploaded to
    ftp-os2.cdrom.com:/pub/os2/incoming/yrn2-058.zip
and will be moved to the /pub/os2/2_x/bbs directory.
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Chin Huang  [e-mail]  [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader
Subject: Re: Yarn and bios output?
Date: 6 Mar 1994 11:03:01 -0500
Organization: Brass Cannon Consulting
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Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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In article <[e-mail]>, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
 > Hello.  I now have Yarn setup on my system.  However, I am a blind user
 > and would like to have it be able to write the articles out to bios.
 > Tracking is pretty good already.  Any wishes to have a speech friendly
 > option?  It doesn't look like it would be that difficult.  73

Hi, Darrell.  If you press "w", a pop-up window asks where you want the
current message to be written.  You can tell it PRN or LPT1 instead of
using a file name.   I guess the other BIOS devices such as COM ports
would work as well.
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       [e-mail] <Kevin Martin> --- Brass Cannon Consulting