>> Yarn's newsrc (which is NOT compatible with a shell account .newsrc) has
>> CR-LF terminated lines. I don't know if this is also true of Soupers.
>> If it is, they should be changed to just LFs to use them on the shell
>> account, since at least some programs will have problems with the CRs.
>
>An easy way to make the translation, if you are zapping files around, is
>to use a zmodem transfer and use the -a option. That will do the CR/LF
>translation for unix to PC and PC to unix.
This is valuable information, at least to me :)... So, in the shell,
would the unix command be "rz -a <filename>"? BTW, I would be
uploading Souper95's .newsrc file to my home directory.
>> You could initiate a PPP connection, transfer your Souper newsrc to your
>> shell account via http or ftp, run trnkill via telnet, transfer .newsrc
>> back to your PC, and then run souper to collect news. :)
>
>grep : .newsrc > news.rc
>mv .newsrc newsrc.old
>mv news.rc .newsrc
>
>will strip all unsubscribed newsgroups out of your .newsrc. This is
Recently, I saw a similar set of unix commands for the same process,
posted by Kevin Martin in one of the Usenet newsgroups:
In article <F21nyU0cGRmY092yn@access.digex.net>,
Ed Tuthill <bishop@access.digex.net> wrote:
>The use of trnkill necessitates asking this question again:
>
>Does uqwk still have a problem with core dumps when lines in the .newsrc
>file get too long? I noticed things being a severe problem even without
>using trnkill, when messages were crossposted badly and lines in the
>.newsrc file became several hundred lines long.
Someone had a patch to increase the size of somee buffer, but that
only postpones the problem. I find it much easier to grep away the
groups I'm not subscribed to and thus eliminate the problem once
and for all:
grep ":" .newsrc > newnews && mv newnews .newsrc
Does this command line (above) essentially do the same thing as the
ones that you posted? Thanks, in advance, for any information that you
can provide.
BTW, since Souper is being discussed in this thread, I would like to
share a new (to me) and, undocumented (at least in my Souper docs),
feature of the program. I run Souper95 (Win95 version). I have a
couple of BAT files that I created to run Souper95 in various
instances, and they are called via Win95 shortcuts. Each time, I click
on one of the shortcut icons, I run Souper95 to run a specific
instance, e.g., get mail ONLY from my ISP, get both mail and news, or
to get news ONLY from another news server.
Well, earlier this evening, as an experiment, I had Souper95
simultaneously downloading news from two different news servers, off of
one PPP connection (to my ISP). I had never tried this before.
However, it worked :)...
First, I clicked on one Win95 shortcut icon to D/L news from my
standard ISP news server. While that process was running, I, then,
clicked on a different Win95 shortcut icon to D/L news from another
server. I had two DOS windows open, for a time, and I got the news
articles from BOTH servers, while I was logged in to my ISP, via a PPP
connection (Dial-Up Networking, in Win95).
This information may not be new to all of the real "power users" on this
list. However, I just thought that I would share my little discovery
with everyone. I consider myself to be sort of an intermediate "power
user", at this point, of Yarn, Souper, Unix, DOS, and the like. And,
if this post helps anyone out there who wants to learn more about
Souper's/Yarn's capabilities, then I will be happy :)...
Debra Walker
-- Debra Walker debraw@wwa.com Chicago, IL