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- Short: AMosaic Post/Follow up News & Mail to Author
- Author: john.blyth@edserv.monash.edu.au (John Blyth)
-
- WriteNews2.www is an Arexx Macro for Amosaic. When you have a news article
- open in AMosaic, it enables you to Post a new article to the same
- newsgroup(s), followup the posting with another posting on that subject, or
- email a reply to the author of the posting. Tested with AS225r2 and
- Amosaic1.4beta & 2.0beta, but there's no reason why it shouldn't work with
- the Amitcp version, with any appropriate changes required.
-
- INSTALLATION: copy WriteNews2.www to your REXX: directory.
-
- REQUIRES: Rexreqtools, & reqtools.library
- You will need SMTPpost and NNTPpost from
- INETUtils1.4 (Aminet: comm/net) so read the docs on these
- utilities!
-
- CONFIGURATION: Load WriteNews2.www into your editor, and edit the
- appropriate lines. (most have self explanatory lines in the script)
- You'll need to set:
-
- REALNAME: to your realname, of course
- FROM: to your email address for replies
- USEWB: to 'yes' if you want to force your editor to run on the
- workbench, to '' to run on Amosaic's screen
- GREETING: Your optional opening line for original postings
- SIGFILE: to the full path to your sigfile (preset to uulib:.signature
- POSTMAIL: to the full path to your SMTPpost binary and its options
- (eg whether to queue or send to smarter host)
- POSTNEWS: to the full path to your NNTPpost binary and its options
- EDITOR: to the full path for your chosen editor (preset to Ed
- EDITORFLAGS: to any editor options/macros required
-
- Your editor must not detach itself! (the editor I use has a `sticky'
- option. As the script calls either SMTPpost or NNTPpost, make sure that you
- have all the required settings mentioned in InetUtils to make these work,
- and the appropriate paths and directories, etc. If you want your editor to
- open on Amosaic's pubscreen you'll need to consult the manual for your
- editor on how to do this. Note the entry for multiview to see how the
- SCREENNAME variable is added to the call for multiview.
-
- Edit your ENVARC:mosaic/prefs entry (and the ENV:mosaic/prefs if you don't
- want to reboot to try it out straight away!) so that the next arexx macro
- reads:
- REXXMACROn ReplytoNews | REXX:WriteNews2.www
- where "n" ^ is the number of the next macro in your list.
-
- DONT FORGET A LINE FEED AT THE END OF THE LINE; OTHERWISE THE MACRO IS NOT
- RECOGNISED!!!
-
- USAGE: Of course to start News reading under AMosaic you need to have your
- NNTPSERVER env: variable set and know your newsgroups in advance: While
- typing a URL "news:*" will eventually get you a listing of ALL newsgroups,
- it is pretty slow! It is much better to start with a newsgroup you know,
- like "news:comp.sys.amiga.networking"
- Click on a news entry and read it. Now by selecting the ReplytoNews macro
- from the macro list, you'll be presented with a requester, and from then
- on it's plain sailing. It has been written as supplied to work with Ed, so
- if you have problems, try it with Ed first.
-
- Note: If you try to FOLLOWUP or MAIL and you haven't got an article
- opened, you may freeze Amosiac. You can, however, POST an article to a
- newsgroup when you only have the listing of articles within that newsgroup.
-
-
- HISTORY:
-
- version 1.05 written by Gary Gallagher. He did the hard work!
-
- version 2 updated so that
- * whole of message including sig file presented to editor
- * references & newsgroups were parsed with PARSE command
- * options were presented to Send/Edit/List/Abort in main loop
- (I didn't like not knowing what was going on)
- * extracted user's realname and mailaddress
- * extracted html codes from body of text article so that NNTP
- postings were clean
- * added Mail function to reply to Author
-
- version 2.1 get mosaic's pubscreen name
- * changed loop so that sigfile is appended only when set
- or when listing. This will enable an editor macro to
- position the cursor at the bottom of the file
- ready for editing
-
- version 2.2
- * is now called from currently running version
- (removed address amosaic.1 calls)
- * added "USEWB" option for editors that won't run on anything
- but Workbench, or for added speed (Workbench running in
- lass colours etc)
- * put postnews & postmail options at top of file
- * added script to get newsgroup for POST option when listing
- of news articles is presented (don't have to open article)
-
- version 2.3
- * cleaned up for Aminet posting
-
- BUGS: * ? I hope not
-
- TO DO: Any suggestions? perhaps requester for domains? or a search
- function for newsgroups? Let me know....
-
- THANKS TO: Gary Gallagher (who or whereever you are) and the AMosaic team.
- Michael O'Connell for trying it out for me
-