dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (09/22/90)
I need a program that, given a .newsrc file and the active file,
produce a listing of all the files containing the articles that have
not been read.
I want to be able to take the list of files and generate a tar tape
that I can take home and put on my machine to read there. Since the
article numbers will be the same, it will make my .newsrc file
transferrable between home and work.
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...Krusty says: Give a hoot, read a book!brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (09/22/90)
In article <1990Sep22.023944.2535@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes: >I need a program that, given a .newsrc file and the active file, >produce a listing of all the files containing the articles that have >not been read. > >I want to be able to take the list of files and generate a tar tape >that I can take home and put on my machine to read there. Since the >article numbers will be the same, it will make my .newsrc file >transferrable between home and work. NewsClip does this as a degenerate case. It is on uunet in ~ftp/ClariNet/nc.tar.Z Dynafeed will also do this but only for a 'pure' .newsrc with no gaps in the article list. (ie. only foo.bar: 1-40 -- not -- foo.bar: 1-38,40) Dynafeed is free. It is in ~ftp/Clarinet/dynafeed.tar.Z. NewsClip has a small registration fee for single users. It, of course, does a lot more than just output a list of files. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal) (09/24/90)
In article <1990Sep22.023944.2535@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes: >I need a program that, given a .newsrc file and the active file, >produce a listing of all the files containing the articles that have >not been read. Maybe you want to feed yourself just those articles that you haven't read before; maybe you want to 'reply' and carry a tape of replies back to the original site for semi-automatic responses. I used to use readnews -p -n comp.sys.mac to pump all of the articles down the wire to me when I dialed in at 2400 baud. I later got sophisticated and piped it through compress in the background and then sz'd the result, when the phone bills got too high. The man page for readnews shows a -l argument "Only the titles output. The .newsrc file will not be updated. (where -e also updates the .newsrc file) A trial run here of [$] readnews -l -n news.newsites produced news.newsites/23 Updated map entry for seque.com That was the only article; that group gets spun into a file along with my maps in case I ever get ambitious and then I expire the entries. You would have to do a wee bit of work with sed to produce the list of files, something like readnews -e -n news.newsites | sed 's/ .*$//' | sed 's/\./\//' and prepend the name of your favorite news spool directory. Hmm. The above even worked. > >I want to be able to take the list of files and generate a tar tape >that I can take home and put on my machine to read there. Since the >article numbers will be the same, it will make my .newsrc file >transferrable between home and work. Now getting those files into tar might be a little tougher. Every time I have tried to put more than about 100 file names into the shell, the shell has asked me to rephrase my question. Maybe appending to a tar archive is working in your system; mine says: sorry, Charlie, no -a. One ugly solution is to cpio the files into a temporary directory, and tar them from there. This is ugly because it copies the files on disk one extra time. If I were doing this, I would get feeds batched and tote the batches. You'll probably feed replies back via uucp, they should be short. Doing that, incidentally, will throw your one-to-one correspondence off a little. Your replies will have to be overlaid by new articles off the tapes; they will of course be somewhere on the tape as well, so they will not get lost. While readnews does not cut down on the interactive finger-flicking the way rn, nn, anon [sic] do, I considered it useful enough to install here even though C News is doing my transport, and at the moment providing me endless entertainment. -- Laird Heal laird@slum.MV.COM The world is my office. (Salem, NH) +1 603 898 1406 <-----I charge for opinions, though.
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (09/28/90)
I have done this on a very crude and "by group" basis. The secret is the
%i or %p. Find all the articles unread, and use !echo to either output
the message id (for ihave) or the path (for batch). Either way you can
then get a feed which will get home before you do.
Ex:
/./!echo "%i" >> ~/ihave.dmy
And:
/usr/lib/news/inews -c 'ihave WORKSITE' -n to.HOMESITE < ihave.dmy
I have a bunch of scripts to do things like feed groups out of junk, and
do dummy ihave for a once-only feed of the last few days stuff.
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bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
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