Ooops, it seems to me, that I have to rework the 'documentation' to be
more generic...
> The instructions require that certain DLLs are present. If they are
> DLLs which are not normally shipped with Win95/98 then why aren't they
> just included in the installation package?
:
As mentioned in the VSoup95/98/NT part of my homepage, the RSXNT-DLLs
are not required for this beta of VSoup95/98/NT. That section also
contains a link to the RSXNT site (although obsolete).
> What is this yarn IO that was mentioned? Do I need to use it in
> Win98? If so, what does it do?
YarnIO is intended to run under OS/2 only. So don't care about it.
> Ok, I'll stop here because I don't have enough information to even ask
> intelligent questions. I hope someone can pare the information down
> to just what I need to know. Thanks.
I'll try to give you a simple script for VSoups IO (hopefully you'll
catch the idea):
- put vsoup.exe into your path (e.g. c:\my-binaries, or c:\windows or
whatsoever)
- create the following subdir structure:
c:\vsoup
c:\vsoup\in-mail
c:\vsoup\in-news
c:\vsoup\out
- in c:\vsoup\in-news create a file named 'newsrc' which contains the
news groups you'd like to receive; format as follows:
de.rec.fahrrad:
alt.test!
comp.os.os2.announce:
and so on... Note, that fetching of alt.test is disabled due to the
trailing '!', the ':' enable group reception.
- for mail reception use the following script:
c:
cd \vsoup\in-mail
vsoup -n pop3://username:password@my.pop3.server
rem
rem the next (but one) line for message import into yarn
rem
import -u
Change 'pop3://...' to fulfill your own needs
- for news reception use the following script:
c:
cd \vsoup\in-news
vsoup -m -h c:\vsoup\in-news nntp://username:password@my.news.server
rem
rem the next (but one) line for message import into yarn
rem
import -u
Change 'nntp://...' to fulfill your needs. Note that most news
server do not require 'username:password', thus
'nntp://my.news.server' will be enough.
- for news & mail transmission use the following script (assuming Yarn
puts the replies into c:\vsoup\out\reply.zip and unzip.exe exists
somewhere in the path):
c:
cd \vsoup\out
unzip -o reply.zip
vsoup -s smtp://my.smtp.gateway nntp://username:password@my.news.server
rem
rem the next (but one) line for message import into yarn
rem
import -u
The above import is required for status messages generated by VSoup.
'smtp://...' has to be adopted according to your needs (smtp:// does
not know anything about usernames and passwords), 'nntp://...' has to
be modified as in the section above.
If the above scripts do not work immediately don't commit suicide (or
something more harmful), try to execute the scripts in single-step-mode
(i.e. tap them in manually and check where they fail).
If they are working, I'd be grateful to get some feedback so that I can
adopt documentation accordingly!
Have fun & happy hacking
Hardy
PS: for more advanced options refer to the online documentation. I'll
be glad to receive any feedback (and of course additions,
enhancements etc) according the documentation
-- VSoup Homepage: http://home.pages.de/~vsoup/