swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) (08/21/89)
While using RN, how does one cause the remainder of a news article to be displayed without receiving anymore "MORE" prompts. The reason? Sometimes someone posts a uuencoded file that I want to capture with my computer. I would like to give RN a command so that the remainder of the article will flow without stopping. I also won't need to edit out the "MORE" text later. Any thoughts? Thanks much. -- - Joel E. Swan [ swan@jolnet.UUCP <> PLINK ID: Amiga*joel ] [ "Amigas.... for the rest of us." <> CI$ : 74746,3240 ] [ "...peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:8 ]
charleen@cinnamon.ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) (08/21/89)
In article <1361@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes: >While using RN, how does one cause the remainder of a news article to be >displayed without receiving anymore "MORE" prompts. >The reason? >Sometimes someone posts a uuencoded file that I want to capture with my >computer. I would like to give RN a command so that the remainder of the >article will flow without stopping. I also won't need to edit out the >"MORE" text later. > >Any thoughts? [jolnet.orpk.il.us is a public access UNIX site] IMHO, you're going about this the wrong way. Doing a screen capture of a file on your local machine is kind of a mickey-mouse way of creating the file you need, but if you insist on doing it that way, don't bother with rn. Find out where news articles are stored on disk (on our system it's /usr/spool/news/news/newusers/questions for this group, for example), then cat the article you want while doing a screen capture. Better way: get a comm program that supports Kermit. Several of them are available for the Amiga (isn't that what you have?). The one you're using may even support it. Best way: ask your sysadmin (Rich Andrews?) to help you set up downloads. If Jolnet doesn't have Kermit, they can get it. And they won't know that you need to do downloads unless you tell them so. If you're paying for access, Jolnet should be responsive to your needs. Charleen The reason so many people get lost in thought is that the territory is unfamiliar. -- Phil Wayne
epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (08/22/89)
In article <1361@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes: >While using RN, how does one cause the remainder of a news article to be >displayed without receiving anymore "MORE" prompts. >The reason? >Sometimes someone posts a uuencoded file that I want to capture with my >computer. I would like to give RN a command so that the remainder of the >article will flow without stopping. I also won't need to edit out the >"MORE" text later. Unless your connection is RELIABLE (e.g. you are using MNP or some other error-correcting technique) your best bet is to save the article (using some variant of the "s" or "w" commands) and use kermit/[xyz]modem or somesuch to do the actual transfer. You are asking for serious trouble otherwise. If you DO have a reliable connection, you can save to /dev/tty and the entire article will be written to your terminal. If you use DC2/DC4 to trigger capture, you can create a shell script containing echo "\022\c";cat;echo "\024\c" or echo -n "\022";cat;echo -n "\024" (whichever works on your system) and pipe into it. Then you shouldn't have to edit anything out. -=EPS=-
erck12@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ballinger) (08/22/89)
In article <1361@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes: >The reason? >Sometimes someone posts a uuencoded file that I want to capture with my >computer. I would like to give RN a command so that the remainder of the >article will flow without stopping. The version of RN that I am using has a 's' command which will save the current article out to a file. There is no need to play around with spooled output. -- Geoff Ballinger, JANET: Geoff@Ed.Ac.Uk CS/AI, ARPA: Geoff%Uk.Ac.Ed@nsfnet-relay.Ac.Uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!Ed.Ac.Uk!Geoff
spector@sumax.UUCP (Mitchell Spector) (08/23/89)
In article <1361@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes: >While using RN, how does one cause the remainder of a news article to be >displayed without receiving anymore "MORE" prompts. People have given a couple of relatively complex answers, but if this is really all you want to do, just type |cat to pipe the article to the command cat. (I assume you are using a Unix system.) Strictly speaking, this causes the entire article to be displayed, not just the remainder, which is what you actually asked for, but what it does is probably what you want. -- Mitchell Spector Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering Seattle University E-mail: spector%sumax.uucp@beaver.cs.washington.edu
swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) (08/23/89)
Thanks to all of those (at least 10) who reponded by mail and posting. Here is a quick look at the ideas given. 1. s or w (save or save w/o header) the posting to a file and use Kermit or cat to the screen 2. s /dev/tty or w /dev/tty and ascii capture 3. s|/dev/tty or w|/dev/tty and ascii capture 4. |cat or |/dev/tty and ascii capture So far I've used method 1 for longer postings and file (with Kermit) and method 4 and ascii caprutre for short uudecoded postings. Again, thanks for each and every person who replied. (Hey, this group did a good job. Congrats. Some music amongst the noise :-) -- - Joel E. Swan [ swan@jolnet.UUCP <> PLINK ID: Amiga*joel ] [ "Amigas.... for the rest of us." <> CI$ : 74746,3240 ] [ "...peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:8 ]
schaut@madnix.UUCP (Rick Schaut) (08/23/89)
In article <1361@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes: >While using RN, how does one cause the remainder of a news article to be >displayed without receiving anymore "MORE" prompts. At the "more" prompt, type 's [filename]<cr>' to save that article to a file. Once you've saved it, you can do anything you want with the file (like edit out all of the stuff that isn't uuencoded). -- Richard Schaut ArpaNet: madnix!schaut@cs.wisc.edu UseNet: ...uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!schaut {decvax!att}!
koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber) (08/23/89)
In article <1361@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) writes: >While using RN, how does one cause the remainder of a news article to be >displayed without receiving anymore "MORE" prompts. >.. >Sometimes someone posts a uuencoded file that I want to capture with my >computer. I would like to give RN a command so that the remainder of the >article will flow without stopping. Why not use rn to normally read the article. Then just use the "s" command to save the article to a file. You will be asked if rn shall save the article in mailbox format, which you should answer with "n". You will then get a normal text file, containing the whole article including the headers. These can be deleted very easily using an editor. After this process, you can use the file in any way you want. have fun Mathias -- -Mathias Koerber |Tel: +65 / 7473828 ext 431 |Fax: +65 / 7474331 -Nixdorf Computer Singapore|EUnet: koerber.sin@nixpbe |nerv: koerber.sin -2 Kallang Sector |uunet: uunet!linus!nixbur!koerber.sin -Singapore 1334 |[Standard-disclaimer:All views personal... ]
epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (08/30/89)
In article <294@nixsin.UUCP> koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber) writes: > use the "s" command >to save the article to a file. You will be asked if rn shall save the >article in mailbox format, which you should answer with "n". If you find that question annoying, put -N in the RNINIT environment variable (or file it points to).