Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!uokmax!metnet!cmaidt From: cmaidt@metnet.FIDONET.ORG (Chris Maidt) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: c.b.i.p news grabber Message-ID: <132.255D2316@metnet.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 12 Nov 89 01:44:02 GMT Organization: Region 19 Gateway: 1:147/10.0 (405)636-7120 Lines: 58 In an article of <9 Nov 89 18:28:27 GMT>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes: > >In article you write: >> >>Does anyone have, or know of, any MS-DOS programs for reading UNIX >>news and/or mail? If not, it might be a good programming project for >>myself or anyone else out there. >>-- > >This may not be exactly what your asking for, but it does give me an >opportunity to submit what I consider a wonderful script for automating >the checking/saving/uudecoding of single and multiple-part binaries. >It does everything but transfer it to your PC. > > ... > >To use the script, do the following: >1. Save the combine and pibm scripts separately in ~/bin (or whereever > you > put your executables). >2. Use chmod to make them executable. >3. Create the ~/News, ~/News/ibm, and ~/News/ibm/old directories as > needed. >4. Start rn; when you get to c.b.i.p, type .-$|pibm at the first > posting. After pibm has finished doing its thing, it will return > to the first posting where you can hit c(atch up) to tag all > articles as read, if you wish. > Please excuse my ignorance, but what programs are availible to run this script on my PC, (under MS-DOS)? I am the postmmaster of our local fidonet<->usenet gateway, and as such I port ALL mail/newsgroups to MS-DOS. I would dearly *LOVE* to be able to run your script ... but I no not of the existance of the utilities necessary to do so. I have a very poor imitation of SED, (hardly works at all like the real thing), I have AWK, I have most of the smaller/handier commands (head/tail/cat/ls/chmod/etc) -- what else do I need bar UNIX itself? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cmaidt%metnet@uokmax.uucp . . . postmaster@metnet.fidonet.org . . . ...!apple!uokmax!metnet!cmaidt . . . postmaster%metnet@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu . . . cmaidt%f9.n147.z1.fidonet.org@uokmax.uucp . . . FidoNets 1:147/9.0, 1:147/10.0 & 1:147/30.8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Wayback Machine - N/8/1 - (405)848-2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Chris Maidt - via FidoNet node 1:147/10 UUCP: ...!att!occrsh!uokmax!metnet!cmaidt INTERNET: cmaidt@metnet.FIDONET.ORG