Re: Bulk
Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 22:25:53 -0500
>On Sun, 15 Sep 96 11:38:34 +0800, "Gerry Britton" <gbritton@xl.ca> wrote:
>> This is addressed to the OS/2 users of Souper/Vsoup-Yarn.
>> I want to add _all_ the CLARI.NET groups to my daily fix.
>>
>> What is the easiest/best approach to do this?
>>
>> I've tried the edit-everything approach, but my fingers wear out before
>> it's all done.
>>
>>
>> Does someone have a REXX script to read in the NEWS.ALL(or its
>> translated NEWST.TXT or NEWS.ASC) and run newgroup.exe? Or a REXX
>> script to add the "clari.tw.*" to the tcpip\etc\newsrc file?
> :
>
>If you are using VSoup, then simply delete the ~\newstime file. If
>this one can not be found by VSoup it will retrieve a list of all
>available newsgroups from on NNTP server.
>
>If you are using souper, then set the ~\newstime file to something
>like
>
>19700101000000
>
>This will not retrieve the list of all available newsgroups, but most
>of them.
My experience is that this does not even retrieve most of them, it may
get about 1/3 of them. That's why I wrote Gng (see my web page). Its
freeware with C++ source, too! :-)
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Phil Crown
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