grwalter@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Fred Walter) (01/23/89)
I just got the latest and greatest Amiga UUCP in the mail and I joyously runs to my Amiga with visions of news running through my mind. But I only have a uucp login and am not a node anywhere. Thus (unless I am mistaken) I would have to tell the machine I have the account on to send me the news. I wrote some programs to do that. Thus if you don't have a machine who will let you be a node, but which does allow anonymous uucp login's, then you too can read news on your Amiga with the Amiga UUCP software. I've sent the programs to Dan "Sneakers" Schein so they'll probably end up in the Amiga UUCP distribution, but I'll mail them to anyone who wants them. For those who are curious this is what I do : I get the NewsFeeds' active file and compare it with a local active file, then I get the articles that I don't have. This has the overhead of transferring the NewsFeeds' active file everytime one gets news, but I couldn't see any other way of finding out what articles have arrived at the feed site. I read in some uucp documentation that there is a way to diff files located at two different sites, which might cut down on the amount transfered, but that facility doesn't exist in Amiga UUCP (yet). fred grwalter@watmath.uwaterloo.ca (Canadian domain) grwalter@watmath.waterloo.edu (US Internet, including CSNET) grwalter@watmath.waterloo.cdn (CDNnet and some European nets) watmath!grwalter (UUCP) uunet!watmath!grwalter (another UUCP alternative) grwalter%watmath.waterloo.edu@csnet-relay.arpa (ARPA)