http://www.vex.net/~x/yirx/: a new Yarn
site is born! Yarn hasn't been updated in how long? OH well, lets make a new site anyhow!
This Bells/2 site is now retired. YIRX is taking over from here on out.
Wednesday, October 29th, 1997, 3:39 am est
bells2.phtml: added link to
Yexport, which
is a DOS utility which sounds quite promising. It sounds similiar to the
old Yarn-to-Soup-with-Grep utility, which never got updated to work
with the Yarn 9.x format news.dat. This one searches 9.x news.dat and
exports messages found to folder or rnews file.
Wednesday, October 15th, 1997, 5:07 pm est
yarnperl.phtml: not much action around
here lately eh? Well here's a whole new page. Not much on it yet. It is
meant to collect any PERL scripts for use with Yarn. It's a long story...
Sunday, September 28th, 1997, 4:57 pm est
yarnhack.html: added this small unofficial
collection of yarn format/structure information for programmers/hackers.
Friday, July 4st, 1997, 5:07 pm est
bells2.phtml: Yep
1.7 - slight update. Really just a new tag "{DAYS:####/##/##}",
which allows the insertion of the number of days to or from any date. That's
the only change! No need to upgrade if you have no use for this tag.
Friday, July 1st, 1997, 5:07 pm est
rexxbells.phtml: Yarf
1.3 - New version... of this script to automate creating spam reports.
bells2.phtml: Yarf
1.5 - New version... of this program to hack up your messages's From:
field.
bells2.phtml: Vsoup
- No update (although there is a new beta with a new -Q (query) switch
on Hardy's web site) but it was pointed out to me how pathetically out
of date my description was. (-: So now it's just pathetic, but not out
of date. My apologies to Hardy for spreading malicious lies and
misinformation all this time! I've even been using Vsoup myself lately,
finally abandoning venerable old Uqwk...
bells2.phtml: Dialers
- Added a link to In-Joy. While not specifically for Yarn, it is very flexible,
and with just a few batch files could easily be configured for automatically
fetching mail. I've been playing with it also lately... shareware.
Monday, June 2nd, 1997, 8:31 pm est
bells2.phtml: Yang
1.0 - At last, a new yarn toy! "Yarn Automatic News Gadget"
can be used to 'hide' newsgroups with no current unread messages from your
newsgroup selection list.
Canadian Trivia: We had a national election today here in Canada.
Polls don't close until 10:30, so i can't tell you who won (though of course
the media have had it all figured out for weeks in advance already). What
do you care, anyhow! And besides, nothing much changes, regardless... sigh.
Some interesting small changes in the election process however. It now
costs 50 thousand dollars to enter a party into a national election; so
some fringe parties are financially discriminated against. On a more positive
note, election polling times were staggered this year: Canada crosses 7
time zones. And it can get rather complicated with the Newfoundland (island)
province actually being in a bizarre timezone all by itself half an hour
off from the rest of the world! Not to mention that one of our provinces
refuses to use 'daylight savings time'. This year everyone will be voting
'at the same time' though their clocks will read different hours. And finally
news organisations have been forbidden (for the first time in my memory)
from reporting advanced polls all day until voting has closed. Why didn't
someone think of this before now! It's amazing -- no media frenzy all night!
This year British Columbia (province) won't be able to watch on TV the
results from the rest of the country, the winner already decided, before
polls have closed on their coast! Er.. sorry, just felt like writing all
that. Oh well. But just let me try to assure you non-canadians if I can,
honestly, Canada has no plans for world domination at the moment, and we
probably won't be invading your country within the next six or eight
months. Of course, what do I know.
bells2.phtml: Most of the links to files
on Hobbes have been updated/corrected,
and all converted from FTP to HTTP. Hobbes is still under re-organisation,
so some links will sill have to change.
Well this log of changes is over a year old now, i've just noticed.
I guess one of these days I'll have to trim it. (-:
Wednesday, April 9th, 1997, 4:48 am est
bells2.phtml: Yep
1.6 - updated version. Finally. Even though nothing really has
changed since the months and months old beta -- finally it's "official".
Saturday, March 29th, 8:59 am est
bells2.phtml: Yarn
Dial 1.53 - updated version includes support for multi-threaded
Vsoup now, as well as good old Souper. Probably numerous other enhancements/fixes
as well -- check it out.
Going to be lots of fun updating all the links as soon as hobbes finishes the massive re-organisation....
wheee...
Thursday, March 13th, 10:28 am est
rexxbells.phtml: UCEreport
- updated rexx script which automatically creates spam complaint
messages when spam messages are piped to it.
Thursday, March 6th, 10:28 am est
rexxbells.phtml: UCEreport
- new rexx script which automatically creates spam complaint messages
when spam messages are piped to it.
Sunday, February 12th, 11:39 pm est
bells2.phtml: Vsoup
- version 1.27 - (the link might not work quite yet, but it's there)
bells2.phtml: Vsoup
- changed link from hobbes to cdrom.com (where did vsoup on hobbes disappear
to?!)
Saturday, January 25st, 1:26 am est
bells2.phtml: Yarf
- version 1.2. - support for LOGDIR and additional error messages.
Tuesday, January 21st, 8:33 am est
bells2.phtml: YarnPack
- version 1.2! nasty bug found, nasty bug fixed! Hopefully less problems
now
Tuesday, January 21st, 2:37 am est
bells2.phtml: ALL NEW! Well, it's
not quite as done as I wanted it to be but, the new incarnation
of this page is now active, such as it is. There is expanded information
on many topics, and a bit more software added, as well as a general re-organisation.
Any correction, submissions or bugs -- let me know. The text/lynx index
isn't done yet.
bells2.phtml: YarnPack
- Yarn newsdat "pack-in-place". Be careful with this one kids,
some people have reported problems, though no extremely serious problems
so far... nothing a rebuild won't fix. Heheh.
Friday, December 13nd, 11:20 pm est
bells2.phtml: Yarn INbox/Folder Checker
(YIN) version 1.5 bug fix. Slow around here
eh. I've actually started re-doing the entire bells2 thingy... but who
knows when i might get done. It's looking good so far though... reorganised...
added some tables and even a couple (one or two) graphics. (-: We'll see.
Monday, December 2nd, 7:05 am est
bells2.phtml: Yarn INbox/Folder Checker
(YIN) version 1.4 upgrade.
Monday, November 18th, 2:59 pm est
bells2.phtml: Yarn INbox/Folder Checker
(YIN) version 1.3 upgrade. Now includes
DOS version, speach-friendly options, smarter folder finding.
bells2.phtml: Speaking of versions, I just
noticed the other day that the latest version of the International version
of PGP is now 2.6.3ia (revision a --
it's been out a while, but I just noticed).
Thursday, July 11th, 1996, 5:04 pm est
rexxbells: Added simple slow'n'dirty
REXX script to do ROT13 "encryption"
from the command line. (Note FTE 0.43 text
editor has this built in).
Monday, July 8th, 1996, 12:59 pm est
rexxbells: Zounds! I just found out that
my REXX scripts (Expire Wildcards
and Newsrc Sort) had been accidentally
saved as Unix-type text! This means they would NOT run at all in OS/2.
They have been fixed updated. I'm shocked no one has reported this before.
I guess no one's using them. Heheh. That's ok.
bells2: link to the new Yarn/Souper for
OS/2 tutorial at the OS/2 E-Zine site.
Sunday, June 9th, 1996, 4:07 pm est
bells2: No News Is Good News 2.0
(NNIGN) updated. Now features crazy "map mode", which will draw
a disk defragger-like ascii map of what the usage inside your news.dat
looks like. Whee.
rexxbells: New script! FoldUP
1.0 will scan yarn folders, give stats, and optionally delete dupes.
This Page: links directly to the new items.
Nice eh! (-:
Sunday, May 5, 1996, 08:35 pm est
bells2: No News is Good News 1.7
new version updated
bells2: Well I'm trying to be compatable
as possible will all web browers (even Net-steamroller-scape!), and so
i'm experimenting with using both allign=center and netscape center codes...
so far it looks ok in Lynx 24-FM (which is the most important thing), and
in WebExplorer -- hopefully in other browsers that support either of these
sorts of centering as well. Just thought i'd let you know of my struggles!
bells2: New "Get Newsgroups" tcp/ip
utility by Phil Crown added.
all pages: Well I wanted to eliminate the only netscapism
that was used in my pages: namely the <center> tag. The proper way
to center text in the HTML format is using the slightly more complicated
<p align="center">. The great irony of this is that IBM
WebExplorer doesn't seem to support the paragraph alignment tag, so now
that I've elimited this evil netscapism (which WebExplorer does support!)
netscape will view my pages properly but WebExplorer won't. )-: Something
is wrong here.
Saturday, April 20, 1996, 05:24 am est
bells2: Updated link to Souper (0410)...
must keep up with all of Chin's releases!
bells2: Updated link to Ytsg (3)... not
new, but the latest.