Re: Yarn documentation or source code

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 19:12:18 -0500

>frankie@mundens.gen.nz (Frank G. Pitt) wrote:
>>I want to write some utilities to assist me in exporting
>>and archiving posts from the Yarn news base.
>
>You can save to files and folders directly from Yarn.
>
>>Are there specifications of the Yarn newsbase file, or even source
>>code for accessing it, available somewhere ?
>
>Have you looked at YarnUtil 0.4 from Oliver Brusberg. He has written
>some utilities that might be used for that purpose to, then you don't
>need to program, but just to write a batch-file or two.
>

I hate to flame or sound harsh, but you call that helpful???

The guy was asking specific questions for specific information. If you don't
know, don't say anything...

Frank, I haven't seen an actual document describing anything that you've asked
for. Sorry. It does not seem to be publically available and those that know are
not sharing the information. So much for "helping your brother"...

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