blaine@worsel.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) (01/17/90)
Remember Newsbreak, that wonderful little program by Fred Walter?
It automatically unpacked the postings to the moderated program groups,
then pasted together multipart archives and uudecoded them. It was a
wonderful timesaver, but it doesn't work on the new postings from Tad
Guy. This seems to be because the ".zuu01" suffix is different from what
Newsbreak is expecting.
(Note: No criticism of Tad is expressed or implied. I'm happy that's he's
taken over an often thankless job.)
Has anyone got an updated version of Newsbreak? Or a similar program that
runs on the Amiga instead of Unix?
Thanks, Blaine.
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UUCP at work: utah-cs!esunix!blgardnetadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (01/20/90)
In article <1417.AA1417@worsel> blaine@worsel.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: > Remember Newsbreak, that wonderful little program by Fred Walter? > it doesn't work on the new postings from Tad Guy. This seems to be > because the ".zuu01" suffix is different from what Newsbreak is > expecting. Right. However, because of the leading zero, submissions requiring more than 10 parts can be unpacked with: cat foo.zuu?? | uudecode instead of more complicated things (like cat foo.zuu1? foo.zuu?, etc). > Has anyone got an updated version of Newsbreak? Or a similar program that > runs on the Amiga instead of Unix? Fred Walter (the author) does. I've been in contact with him about this (and a couple of other things about newsbreak) and he's enhanced it. Look for it in comp.sources.misc (not comp.sources.amiga, since it's far more general) soon... ...tad