Re: Question about Yarf

From: Tim Myddleten (tim@yarn.list)
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 16:47:08 -0400

Thu, 03 Jul 1997 10:00:28 -0400, judge@america.net (Dirk A. Loedding) wrote:
>I tried to get Yarf running this morning. It refused to do anything at
>all for me. What questions about my configuration do I need to answer

Can we assume you've read the documentation and set it up as described
therein? You've created a 'dummy' user/host in your Yarn config.
You've inserted "yarf!" before your archiver command line? Edited the
Yarf.cfg file?

You won't actually see yarf do anything (unless you are running os/2).
However the default batch file should write a yarf.log in your
%HOME%\yarn directory of the last operation it did... the logfile will
be written when you exit yarn if yarn packs any messages.

>easily just change the Yarf config file rather than the Yarn config file
>to make it look like I'm the original poster for the messages I approve.

I'm really not sure if Yarf will do what you want. By 'making it look
like i'm the original poster' seems to indicate that yarf would need
to scan for some header and set the "from" to that. Yarf has no
capabilities like that. It only searchs and replaces based on strings
in the Yarf.cfg file -- so unless you know everyone in your newsgroup
and set up the yarf.cfg file with their addresses beforehand I don't
think Yarf will help?

Of course if you're into hacking you might be able to write some sort
of script that extracts all the addresses when you download/import
that newsgroup and dynamically write a yarf.cfg file. <-:

Keep in mind as the docs say however that Yarf is currently limited to
60 substitution definitions. I put in this limit mainly to keep the
DOS version from using too much memory -- thinking that no one would
probably come anywhere near 60 definitions in your yarf.cfg.

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