Re: Bringing News to Home

Wayne Dernoncourt (wayned@cpcug.org)
Tue, 28 May 1996 17:49:15 -0400

> Michael Gray wrote on Mon, 27 May 1996 08:46:47 -0800:
> m> >I would like to bring my news base from my office to home
> m> >and vice-versa. Which files should I copy?

> m> The easiest way is to transport your SOUP or UQWK packet and
> m> import that at each place.

> I think the simplest way is to maintain two msgbases, home
> and at office. Or you opt for QWK packet format.

I'm still using Yarn .89, so of course YMMV. This is the batch I use
to go between the two places:

d:^pkzip yarncur @c:packlist
except (c:*.*) pkzip -rp yarncur c:*.*
c:

Where packlist consists of the following:
c:active
c:history.dir
c:history.pag
c:supersed.dir

The except command is found in 4DOS and sets the hidden bit for the
specified operation. After the operation is concluded, the hidden
bit is returned to normal. My reply packet is in a subdirectory
called REPLY. The options on the pkzip line specify to recurse into
subdirectories and store the path names. When I get to the other
place, I use the following commands:

pkunzip -d yarncur (unpacks new files into the right spot, answer
'n' to every question about overwriting)
then:
pkunzip -fd yarncur ("freshens" the files that already exist)