Re: UQWK questions

Lemire Dave (LEMIRED@bah.com)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 7:14am

->> 2) Is it possible to get uqwk to print some kind of "I'm Done!" message
to
->> the console?
->
->Not without some code hacking to the source. You can wrap uqwk in
->a shell script which writes the message. This even saves you some
->typing to get the command line parameters right:

I'm using a script now (I'm trying to get this to a point where it's
automated, simple and reliable for someone else who's the primary user). My
script run uqwk in background mode since sometimes the inactivity
auto-logoff gets triggered if uqwk is collecting a whole lot of stuff. That
mostly appears to happen on the first retrieval of a high-traffic group, but
I'm trying to program defensively. By running in background mode, uqwk runs
to completion even if there's an auto-logoff so the files are there to
download during a subsequent log-in.

- DaveL