jfmjfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) (05/08/90)
Hi there, I'm using the NetNews stack 1.2.1 that came with the MacTCP toolkit and its rather nice (no Amanda we dont want another Ad saying how much nicer your product is). But there is a little problem, in comp.binaries.mac and comp.sys.mac.digest the files are quite often more than 32k and this leads to the articles being truncated, has anyone found a way of storing such articles in 2 text fields ? I am sure it could be done but I dont have the time to hack at it. It would make the stack a lot more usable. Currently I have to read the header of a binary post and then drop back one level and use the save bodies as text option. This only works if you only have the articles you want marked as unread, otherwise all teh current articles are saved. Thanks [sorry Amanda:-)] John Mansfield, North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory, University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2143. (313) 936-3352 jfmjfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu or John_Mansfield@um.cc.umich.edu
amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) (05/09/90)
In article <1990May8.144339.11886@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, jfmjfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu (John F. Mansfield) writes: > [about the "netnews" HyperCard stack] > (no Amanda we dont want another Ad saying how > much nicer your product is). Oh, come now... The only "ads" I send are in response to specific requests, and are sent by private email or U.S. Mail. I take great pains not to "plug" our product--for one thing, I'm an engineer, not a marketroid. On the other hand, when someone asks specifically for newsreaders for the Mac, it doesn't seem unreasonable to mention that it exists. Some people aren't interested in spending their time hacking HyperTalk scripts, after all... On to your question: HyperCard displayed fields are limited to 32K of data, although HyperTalk containers will, in fact, hold as much as memory will allow. What I would do would be to add a button to the article card that saves the article body out of the original container (instead of the displayed field), or if necessary, re-fetches the article from the server. I don't remember off hand if the entire article body is kept around after it's displayed. >I am sure it could be done but I dont have the time to hack at it. It >would make the stack a lot more usable. Yup, it would. Maybe someone can find the time. -- Amanda Walker, InterCon Systems Corporation -- "Y'know, you can't have, like, a light, without a dark to stick it in... You know what I'm sayin'?" --Arlo Guthrie