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  1. Newsgroups: alt.hackers
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news.duc.auburn.edu!eng.auburn.edu!fstuart
  3. From: fstuart@eng.auburn.edu (Frank Stuart)
  4. Subject: Re: My first nntp hack
  5. Message-ID: <fstuart.930125002613@lab16.eng.auburn.edu>
  6. Sender: usenet@news.duc.auburn.edu (News Account)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: lab16.eng.auburn.edu
  8. Organization: Auburn University Engineering
  9. References: <2b5d66e7@ralf>
  10. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:26:13 GMT
  11. Approved: The Lizard King
  12. Lines: 15
  13.  
  14. In article <2b5d66e7@ralf> Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
  15. >ObHack:  A previous posting talked about running 'rn' unattended.  I've
  16. >been doing that since 1987 with a program that opens a pair of pipes to
  17. >'rn' and feeds it all the necessary commands and looks at the responses
  18. >to decide what needs to be done next.  The whole thing is controlled by
  19. >a data file which specifies what newsgroups to save and per-newsgroup
  20. >filtering info.
  21.  
  22. If you aren't too particular:
  23.      yes ' ' | rn |& whatever
  24. works just fine.
  25.  
  26.  
  27. Frank Stuart           |   grep: dead.trees: Permission denied
  28. fstuart@eng.auburn.edu |   MMMMmmmmm, Soylent Green
  29.