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grabnews is a quick port!? (read hack) of xfer from nntp1.5.12
anyone want to do xmit?
Quick instructions
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double click setup
double click demon
hey presto down comes the last few days postings to c.s.a.networking
Longer instructions and how it works
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it's easy to use type
grabnews newsserv group YYMMDD HHMMSS distrib
newsserv is the name of the news server you use.
group the name of the newsgroup you want.
Note only one. I told you it was a hack.
YYMMDD HHMMSS year month day hour minutes secs since last news fetch
distrib is an optional distribution list
alternatively you can use
grabnews newsserv
and the rest will be loaded from a file.
grabnews requires 2 system variables setup these could be setup by KA9Q
(don't forget the create a directory to hold the message id history)
nntp$dir holds the history directory and a file 'nntplast' used to hold the
groupname and time of the last newsfetch. this file can be used but you must
include something on the distribution line otherwise it will grab a random
piece of memory and use that as the string! Note: the history directory must
be created by hand.
<mail$dir>.folder is a directory to conatain the downloaded batches news file.
grabnews is the non debug version
grabnewsDB output heaps of information about what's going on.
I've only tested this program on a small news group on demon. It worked for
me last time I tried it.
The file test can be used to test out newsbase which only partly impliments
nntp but it shows it all works.
I've hacked most of the source files to some extent. most came from Stewart
a few weeks ago. most of the changes to his code were to get it working with
Cv.4
© Simon Truss 1995
mailto:simon@bigblue.demon.co.uk