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- Other details
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- Of these files, the only one you should need to edit 'by hand' is
- the GlobalRule file.
-
- The files in !NewsHound.Config have the following purpose:
-
- i) Config
-
- This is the global configuration file, and contains the nickname
- (the 3 letters preceding 'Group' from genGroup) of the default newsserver.
- It also includes the time that message id's are held in the Id
- History. This is to stop duplicate messages been downloaded -
- a value around 14 days is normally okay, although slightly longer is
- better. The number of times to retry, and the delay inbetween them, should
- the server be busy, is also specified in here.
- This file can be editted via the 'Configure...' menu option.
-
- ii) xxxGroup
-
- This is the file that contains all the data about the 'xxx' newserver,
- like its hostname name, and all the newsgroups that are fetched from
- it. Normally, you don't need to manually edit this - it's all done from
- newsbase.
- If you have access to more than one newsserver, you can create more
- of these files, and can select the news servers from the
- 'Start Fetch' menu in newshound.
-
- iii) GlobalRule
-
- This contains a list of statements that allow NewsHound to decide whether
- to completely ignore an article, download only the header, or download
- the whole article. This file can be editted manually - do not remove
- the lines beginning with $'s. It is also modified by the addgroup
- program.
- You can use this file to automatically select interesting articles
- out of groups that are downloaded header only.
- For example, if I wanted to download all the articles by 'John' in
- csa.misc, I'd add a line like this:
-
- comp.sys.acorn.misc * *John* * * art
- [group name subject From Bytes Lines Amount]
-
- just after the '$ exceptions:' line in !NewsHound.Config.GlobalRule.
-
- You can also adjust the maximum size of article that is fetched
- complete, by changing the line after '$ max articlesize'. Any articles
- that are bigger than this (100k by default) will only have their
- headers downloaded, unless you specify otherwise.
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