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- Welcome to SAVENEWS Macro v1.00
- ------------------
- To be used with Macro5 (from v2.37) and
- RMRNews News Reader for EPOC (v1.00F English)
-
- PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
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- SaveNews is a macro that automates the process of storing your articles
- from RMRNews to any number of "preformatted" Data files (e.g. one for
- each NewsGroup you have subscribed).
- Before proceeding, keep in mind the following:
- * especially when you choose to archive multiple articles, SaveNews
- may take some time to accomplish its task: please note that while the
- macro is running, Macro5 is NOT available for other operations and you
- also should NOT switch to other tasks or applications;
- * be also advised NOT to touch the keyboard while SaveNews is running,
- because you could interfere with the scheduled sequence of keystrokes,
- thus leading to some misbehavior of the macro itself (including the
- deletion of all your articles in the worst case, only if the "auto-delete"
- option is selected);
- * use the "auto-dele" option with care, as there is no way of restoring
- any deleted article from RMRNews. I strongly recommend a good
- BACKUP before starting to play with SaveNews...
- * I decline any responsibility for any loss of data that may result from
- the use of this program.
-
- HOW TO INSTALL AND USE
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- 1) Unzip the savenews.zip file.
- 2) Copy SaveNews.opo, SaveNews.ico and SaveNews.box to the folder
- where you keep all the macros of Macro5. The SaveNews.box file is
- a "preformatted" Data file used to create new target Data files from
- within the macro. DO NOT use this file to store your articles, just
- leave it empty in your macros folder.
- 3) Launch Macro5 and create a new shortcut to SaveNews.opo (remember
- to select "Macro" and not "Program" in the shortcut "Type" definition).
- 4) Call SaveNews macro through the associated Macro5 shortcut: the first
- time you launch it, a Setup process will start, showing your System
- settings: location of your RMRNews program, and Macro5 version
- (remember you need v2.37 at least, as this macro is not tested with
- previous releases); a second dialog will ask you for the location
- of your default Data file (the one that will be used by default to store
- your articles); if you do not have previous .box Data files to use,
- select NEW and a dialog will let you create a new Data file and place
- it wherever you want (the .box extension will be automatically added
- if you forget it); finally a last window will ask if you want to enable
- the choice of different Data files (note that you can create multiple
- Data files also in a second time using the NEW option), and if you
- want to open a dialog window to automate the process of archiving
- (and deleting) a group of articles each time you launch SaveNews.
- 5) All these settings are stored to a SaveNews.ini file located in the
- "C:\System\" folder; if for any reason you need to change these settings,
- simply delete the file, and when you will recall SaveNews, the setup
- process will be launched again.
- Alternatively, you can relaunch the Setup procedure from within the
- macro, in the target data file window (if enabled).
- 6) Once accomplished the setup process, these are the steps to follow:
- - launch your RMRNews program
- - highlight an article without opening it (do not press Enter)
- - call SaveNews macro through the associated Macro5 shortcut
- NOTE: if the highlighted article is not available off-line (you just
- downloaded the header), the macro automatically stops and the
- connection window will be displayed, so that you can retrieve the
- whole article from your news server, or abort the connection.
- 7) According to the options you have selected in the setup process, once
- launched, SaveNews may:
- - ask for the location of your target Data file to store your article(s)
- - ask for the number of articles to automatically archive
- - ask if it has to delete the original article(s) from RMRNews
- 8) If everything is OK, once SaveNews has finished its task, you should
- find yourself again in the RMRNews screen, but you should also find
- the article(s) stored in the (selected) target Data file.
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- NOTES ON THE NEWSBOX DATA FILE
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- The "preformatted" DATA file, where the articles from RMRNews are
- stored, has the following labels:
- Subject (type: text length: 250) second sorting key (ascending)
- Date (type: text length: 30) first sorting key (descending)
- From (type: text length: 250)
- To (type: text length: 250)
- CC/BCC (type: memo length: unlimited)
- Body (type: memo length: unlimited)
-
- The format of the Date field is "yyyy/mm/dd" in order to have the articles
- correctly sorted by time in the NewsBox file.
- Some of the above fields are not used by SaveNews, but are left to
- maintain the full compatibility with the Data files used by SaveMail
- (a similar macro that works with the Email application), so you can
- also use "mixed" target files to store articles or messages both from
- RMRNews and the Email application.
-
- TRANSLATING THE OPL CODE
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- Feel free to modify the source code (SaveNews.opl) as you like...
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- KNOWN ISSUES
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- * If an article has a field (excluded the body of the article) with more
- than 250 characters, only the first 250 will be copied to the Data file;
- if this happens, a dialog is displayed to alert you
- * the Date field of the target Data file will show the time of archiving,
- marked with (*) and not the real time of the message; if you want to
- store the real time of the message, then open RMRNews (Article view)
- and select menu - view - "show headers": some additional information
- (including date & time of the article) will be copied to the body field
- of the target Data file
-
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ------------------
- A great thank you to:
- * Pascal Nicolas for writing Macro5
- Visit his homepage for a huge library of useful macros:
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/1215/
- * Serge Chestopalov for writing RMRNews,
- available from RMR Software at:
- http://www.rmrsoft.com/
- * Roger R. Prokic for suggesting and beta testing this macro
-
- Any comments & suggestions are welcome!
-
- E-mail me at:
- sergioalisi@geocities.com
- Visit my homepage at:
- http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/bridge/1492
-
- THANKS & ENJOY