What I want to do is receive newsgroups from a second newsserver (there
is an added complication is that it will be done using a second dialup
to a second ISP, as I am trying one of the free ISPs).
I'm using Vsoup and Yarn under OS/2.
My %HOME% directory is c:\internet\default.
I have several Yarn users set up, using %LOGDIR% c:\internet\alan,
c:\internet\default etc.
But to begin with, let's ignore the multiple users.
My %YARN% directory is c:\internet\yarn
The Vsoup newsrc is in %HOME%
The Yarn newsrc's are in the %LOGDIR%\yarn directories.
The news base is in %YARN%\news.dat
I could set up a duplicate of c:\internet\.... for the new provider but
I'd like to integrate it if I can. If possible, I would like news from
both newsservers to go into the same news.dat. I intend to modify my
REXX scripts to handle both ISP's by simply passing a parameter
specifying the ISP as "Prestel" or "Freeserve", and have the scipts
behave according to the ISP being used.
>From the vsoup docs, it seems that I should put a newsrc in each news
"in" directory for each newsserver. But I don't see how I make Vsoup
use it - do I change the %HOME% directory for this operation to receive
news?
This, I think, is my critical question. The Vsoup docs specify only one
"out" directory. Even without the complication of two ISP's, how does
Vsoup know which newsserver to send each reply to. Presumably, it
doesn't use the newsrc file as it is possible to send news to groups
that are not in the newsrc file. I envisage there would be problems if
local Prestel newsgroup articles were uploaded to the Freeserve server.
Alan