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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Need a way to "take home" unread articles
Message-ID: <1990Sep22.063224.6905@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Sep 90 06:32:24 GMT
References: <1990Sep22.023944.2535@smsc.sony.com>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <1990Sep22.023944.2535@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
>I need a program that, given a .newsrc file and the active file,
>produce a listing of all the files containing the articles that have
>not been read.
>
>I want to be able to take the list of files and generate a tar tape
>that I can take home and put on my machine to read there.  Since the
>article numbers will be the same, it will make my .newsrc file
>transferrable between home and work.

NewsClip does this as a degenerate case.  It is on uunet in
 ~ftp/ClariNet/nc.tar.Z

Dynafeed will also do this but only for a 'pure' .newsrc with no gaps
in the article list.  (ie. only  foo.bar: 1-40  -- not -- foo.bar: 1-38,40)

Dynafeed is free.  It is in ~ftp/Clarinet/dynafeed.tar.Z.   NewsClip has
a small registration fee for single users.   It, of course, does a lot
more than just output a list of files.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473