axelson@dasys1.UUCP (Kevin Axelson) (11/13/87)
Is there a program which a PC user can run under DOS to interact with
unix newsgroups, such as "zapcis" lets PC users interact with compuserve?
Zapcis lets you name newsgroups of interest, and then have it automatically
go online, request headers of unread articles, and leave. You then mark
the headers in Zapcis (offline), and make another pass at the host, where
Zapcis has the articles typed to it's capture buffer. Finally, zapcis
keeps different capture files for each newsgroup, and manages the display
of the articles with "next/previous/respond/etc." features.
I am using my pc in capture mode with
"find [newsgroup subdir] -mtime -n -links 1 -exec cat {} \;"
to list what I want (n=number of days back to go).
Perhaps there are news programs on some unix hosts that allow downloading
useful for PCs; ours doesn't seem to.
Perhaps I could put up unix on my PC and more efficiently interact with
my host on the network.
This is of course intended to minimize impact on our host; connect time
seems to be more critical than cpu/io load during the hours I'd be most
interested in reading news. It seems to make sense to download at an off
hour. Has anyone pursued this?
Thanks...
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