smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) (01/09/86)
**** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh > I need a 'script' or program to do the job {read my news} > (background or foreground doesn't matter) for me so that later (probably > one or two weeks later!) I can look at the saved file. The following is a script that I use on system V release 2 which I start and then each day it mails me all the news from net.micro.mac. The easy way I stop it is to change its name from readmac to macread for 25 hours. # readmac: reads news in net.micro.mac and mails it to smh each day. readnews -pn net.micro.mac | mail smh at now + 1 day < readmac I only use this when I am on vacation since I haven't figured out how to conveniently page through each article like vnews or readnews. Since our system only keeps news for 3 or 4 days, a program like this is a newssaver:-) One could invoke it as 'readnews -p | mail login' if you wanted to use your .newsrc, but I don't save all my regular news, just mac news.