Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!ssbn!bill From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Readnews for the PC Message-ID: <190@ssbn.WLK.COM> Date: 8 May 88 12:52:30 GMT References: <1280@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <1259@uokmax.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy) Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. and Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 52 In article <1259@uokmax.UUCP> rmtodd@uokmax.UUCP (Richard Michael Todd) writes: >In article <1280@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> jal@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (John Lefor) writes: >>I got a version of uucp for the PC working recently and >>am now interested in getting a newsfeed. Has anyone converted >>a news reading program (such a rn, vnews, etc) over to the >>PC or will I have to work on it myself? >Just for the record, a news-reading program by itself won't do much good; >you also need to port the 'rnews' program (or some equivalent) that reads >in the compressed news batches and inserts the separate articles into [ ... ] It's easier than that if you can get your feeding site to go along with it. There are two alternatives, each illustrated below. If the site is running uulink (from Vortex Technology) the first technique will work. Note that it does not batch to allow reading on an article basis as opposed to a batch basis. The second simply mails the articles to each reader. The sys file for each site determines what groups they get and the script below actually ships the stuff out from time to time. Note that each batch is sorted by newsgroup first so that they are at least batched by group. # # Send news to neighbors daily at 0600 # if test -s /usr/spool/batch/uulinksite then sort /usr/spool/batch/uulinksite > /tmp/uulinksite cp /tmp/techsoar /usr/spool/batch/uulinksite cat /usr/spool/batch/uulinksite | while read art do uux - -r -n -gd uulinksite!rnews < $art done rm -f /usr/spool/batch/uulinksite /tmp/uulinksite fi # # Mail news to neighbors daily at 0600 # if test -s /usr/spool/batch/mailsite then sort /usr/spool/batch/mailsite > /tmp/mailsite cp /tmp/mailsite /usr/spool/batch/mailsite cat /usr/spool/batch/mailsite | while read art do mail mailsite!user1 mailsite!user2 < $art done rm -f /usr/spool/batch/mailsite /tmp/mailsite fi I suspect that the news administrator feeding you would be more receptive to this technique if you sent it along with the request for a feed. I never said it was elegant, just offered it as an alternative. -- Bill Kennedy usenet {rutgers,ihnp4!killer,cbosgd}!ssbn!bill internet bill@ssbn.WLK.COM