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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Need a way to "take home" unread articles
Message-ID: <2699@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 20:44:07 GMT
References: <1990Sep22.023944.2535@smsc.sony.com> <1990Sep24.063708.1284@slum.MV.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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I have done this on a very crude and "by group" basis. The secret is the
%i or %p. Find all the articles unread, and use !echo to either output
the message id (for ihave) or the path (for batch). Either way you can
then get a feed which will get home before you do.

Ex:

  /./!echo "%i" >> ~/ihave.dmy

And:

  /usr/lib/news/inews -c 'ihave WORKSITE' -n to.HOMESITE < ihave.dmy

I have a bunch of scripts to do things like feed groups out of junk, and
do dummy ihave for a once-only feed of the last few days stuff.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.