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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: NOTIFICATION OF NEW ITEMS AT LOGIN
Message-ID: <2139@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 20:15:56 GMT
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RAND@merrimack.edu (Rand P. Hall) writes:

|Am I overlooking something or is this a simple solution to the problem
|at hand:

|Write a command procedure or hll program to:

|get the last mod date of newsrc.;
|loop:
| read record from newsrc.;
| if newsgroup is local       !you do organize local groups logically, yes?
| and field2 is 1 then        !registered
|  look at each file in [NEWS.newsgroup] and compare date to date(newsrc.;)
| goto loop

|Am I lost, or what?

     You're not lost at all!  That's essentially what I need, although I'd
rather go through the NEWS.GROUPS file than rack up all those file accesses.
I was merely posting my laziness to the net - I won't have time to even
think about writing that program decently (i.e. very configurable, command
line options, etc) until after finals in December.  If it's still pending
then I'll probably give it a shot.

-- 
Tim Russell   Univ. Of Nebr. at Omaha   russell@{zeus.unl.edu | unoma1.bitnet}
"I'm against any law that I wouldn't break if I could get away with it."
                                             -- A. Whitney Brown, SNL