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- From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)
- Subject: Re: Can I download news to my PC?
- In-Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:04:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.124021.17691@mlfarm.com>
- Sender: news@rosie.mlfarm.com
- Organization: Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:40:21 GMT
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- B.G. Mahesh writes:
-
- My colleagues are on the road very often. [...]
- They want to download news from these unix machines
- so that we can save some more $$$ !!!! Are there any
- public domain <grin> packages or commercially available
- packages which will do this?
-
- Some years ago I wrote bsnews (`Bootstrap News' ;-) to enable some PCs
- to take a limited newsfeed from us. From the Readme:
-
- Bootstrap News is a collection of programs which enable a leaf node to
- take a limited news feed and post articles to Usenet. News articles
- are spooled in Unix-mail-format files, where they can be read,
- printed, forwarded, replied-to, or saved. The distribution provides a
- news-reader, news-poster, checknews, uudecode for binary and graphics
- files, and daemons to unpack and expire news received via uux or mail.
- Bsnews after version 2.0 includes multiple, user-configurable news
- spools, and simplified configuration with a `make whatami' script.
- Version 2.2 provides bug fixes for weird date commands, maverick
- compilers, and error messages.
-
- Bsnews has been tested on BSD and SystemV Unix, including Xenix.
- Portions can be built on ms-dos, Amiga, Atari, and Coherent systems
- running uucp workalikes. Bsnews is not a substitute for B-News or
- C-News. if your news needs include feeding articles to downstream
- nodes, or if your news subscription is more than a few dozen news
- groups, you should probably install a full news package.
-
- Bsnews 2.1 is available at uunet and other comp.sources.misc archives.
- It might meet your needs.
- --
-
- Ronald Florence
- ron@mlfarm.com
-