dimare@ucla-cs.UUCP (08/14/84)
Sorry, but postnews didn't deliver my first message, only the second.
What I want is a program that can look up the .newsrc file (to figure
out which groups I'm suscribed), and then concatenate together all
the corresponding messages separating one from another by some
special line, like .
This would let me use the rdm (UCLA) command to read the news. The advantage
of rdm is that it can list a full screen of subjects, and lets you skip
fast over the messages you don't want to read. As an example, whenever
I receive ai-digest, I create a file of the same name and then execute
the following command:
awk '/^Date/ { print ""} { print }' ai-digest > t; rdm t; rm t
which means: look for Date at the beginning of the line, and when found
precede it by . After this, rdm can recognize message boundaries.
Then use rdm to read the mail in file t, and then kill it.
The problem on writing this shell script is handling the .newsrc file.
Does anybody have something similar?
Adolfo
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dimare@ucla-locus.arpaglenn@ncoast.UUCP (Glen Norris h2280589) (08/19/84)
[Sorry, can't think of a better place to post this.] I'm looking for the SOURCE of my enjoyment last Spring when I was reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Net, The Restaurant at the End of the Net, etc. I believe it was coming in from ARPA, but I missed about half of the chapters. They were written in almost perfect DAdams style and I would simply like to complete my collection. Would someone be kind enough to post the books here or point me in the right direction? advTHANKSance, gn ...decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!gle[n,nn]