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- .KEY HOST,GROUPS/K,HISTORY/K,STAMP/K,KILL/K,TO/K,PANIC/K,BATCH/K/N,BLIP/K/N,TRACE/K,AUTONEWS/K
- ;*
- ;* Sample script to invoke nntp client and add news to uucp Newsbase
- ;*
- ;* Mandatory parameter of name of news server; all other parameters have
- ;* reasonable defaults (assuming you have a uulib:NewsGroups file).
- ;*
- .def HOST $newsserver
- .def GROUPS "UULIB:NewsGroups" ;file containing list of groups
- .def HISTORY "AmiTCP:db/NewsHistory" ;file containing news history
- .def STAMP "AmiTCP:db/NewsStamp" ;file containing date news last retrieved
- .def KILL "AmiTCP:db/nntpKillFile" ;file containing kill instructions
- .def BLIP 5 ;frequency of display of blipmsg
- .def TO "uuspool:NewsBatch" ;file to contain batched news
- .def PANIC 150000 ;maximum size of pending news in T:
- .def BATCH 4 ;maximum number of requests batched to server
- .def TRACE 3 ;amount of information displayed
- .BRA {
- .KET }
-
- changetaskpri 2 ; set task priority for quicker news download;
- if NOT EXISTS {Groups} ;Check we have a Groups file
- echo "You must set up a '{Groups}' file, or give the name"
- echo "of another file containing the news groups you want"
- quit 10
- endif
- echo "Newsserver: "{host}
- echo "Pulling News..."
- echo >t:nntpclient-Commands "NEWGROUPS t:nntp-NewGroups*NNEWNEWS {Groups} {to}"
-
- failat 11 ;nntpclient has done something at error level 10
- nntpclient <t:nntpclient-Commands {host} COMPLEX BATCH {batch} BLIP {blip} BLIPMSG "NNTP: %5ld articles received" HISTORYFILE {history} STAMPFILE {stamp} TRACE {trace}
- failat 10 ;back to default
- delete t:nntpclient-Commands QUIET ;don't want command file now
- echo "News Dowloaded"
- if {autodown} eq "YES"
- amiconnect down
- endif
- if exists t:nntp-NewGroups ;Got any new groups ?
- echo "{host} has the following new news groups:"
- echo
- type t:nntp-NewGroups >> uulib:NewNewsGroups ; Show new groups
- type t:nntp-Newgroups
- echo "Newgroup list appended to uulib:newnewsgroups"
- endif
- if exists {to}
- failat 30 ;don't worry if we can't find GetPriority
- getpriority >nil: ;preserve the current priority in a local variable
- failat 20 ;back to default
- changetaskpri -4 ;postprocessing is a background task
- rnews {to}
- failat 10 ; because
- ; delete {to} quiet ;get rid of the postprocessed file
- get >nil: Priority ;check that Priority local var. was set
- if not WARN
- changetaskpri $Priority ;re-instate the saved priority
- endif
- else
- echo "Sorry, no news transferred"
- endif
-