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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!ibmpcug!mantis!news
- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: expire with capability to produce digests
- Message-ID: <930111.154256.2q7.rusnews.w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:42:56 GMT
- References: <HgN3wB1w165w@qainfo.se>
- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- micke@qainfo.se (Micke Larsson) writes:
- > for some newsgroups I would like to keep old news for future reference.
- > Is there an expire utility for DOS Waffle which can stuff away messages
- > to a file before they are being expired?
-
- My expire has an option to leave alone messages which have the archive bit
- set. I use this feature so that I can archive the articles posted to
- alt.atheism.moderated.
-
- I put
-
- alt.atheism.moderated /mexp=96,a+
-
- in the USENET file. A batch file zips up the articles and moves them to the
- download area for info-server@mantis.co.uk, then uses ATTRIB -A <file> to
- remove the archive bit.
-
- This isn't quite what you wanted, of course. It's more general. You can use
- it to get what you wanted by using the following 4DOS command:
-
- for /aa %i in (*.) do (type %i >>! keepfile ^ attrib -a %i)
-
- Note that this archive bit stuff is only in the registered version of expire,
- 2.2.
-
- > Is there a simple solution or a utility? Anyone? Mathew?
-
- But of course :-)
-
-
- mathew
-