quantum@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60113000) (03/24/88)
I was wondering if someone has already written something like this: a news interface which you could program to pull back only those articles with subjects/authors/fields you were interested in and ignore the rest. With net news, one gets tons of messages which sometimes don't mean much to you, and you don't have the time to wade through them. So what if one you wrote an interface to which you could specify what keywords in articles to look for and tag them for you, so you could locate them easily? Has anyone written such a program? If not, I might think of working on one. ----- Gary Lin quantum@ucscb.UCSC.EDU UC Santa Cruz, CA !ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!quantum Okay, laugh at me. I don't have a .sig
ken@cs.rochester.edu (03/25/88)
-- You can turn a news directory into a MH "folder" by making a symbolic link to the news directory. Once you have done that, you can use the scan and pick commands of MH to select the ones you want. Better still, don't make the links to the directory but to the files, then you can "remove" the junk. Ken
quantum@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60113000) (03/26/88)
In article <8028@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes: >-- >You can turn a news directory into a MH "folder" by making a symbolic >link to the news directory. Once you have done that, you can use the >scan and pick commands of MH to select the ones you want. > I am aware one could implement shell scripts or other programs to wade through news articles, but what I really wanted was an automated program that would, in the middle of the night, scan through articles of interest and save them to a folder. Needless to say, it should operate without human intervention, collecting articles. Source to programs that interpret/process text in phrases would be appreciated. I haven't had time to refer to comp.sources archives, so I don't know if some- one has written parts of programs than do grepping and expression expansion. At the moment, I am thinking of working on a version that would talk to an Internet news-server daemon. Though if you had the news articles physically on ones machine, it would be trivial to implement. Remember, I'm just sounding out iif people are interested in the concept, I haven't started any work on this yet. Thanks. ---- Gary M. Lin quantum@ucscb.UCSC.EDU Computer Engineering !ucbvax!ucscb!ucscc!quantum UC Santa Cruz, CA "He's here -- the Phantom of the ARPA..."