Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!ben From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: continuous reading Message-ID: <1990Nov26.205952.24879@servalan.uucp> Date: 26 Nov 90 20:59:52 GMT References: <1990Nov23.201118.14161@techbook.com> <274df9cb.20b9@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> <1990Nov24.195439.9015@techbook.com> Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 36 In article <1990Nov24.195439.9015@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes: >In article <274df9cb.20b9@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar's Carbonated Hormones) writes: >>jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) recently informed us: >>>I know there are things for mail (UUPC) and things to hook up to BBS's (Waffle, >>>UFgate) but those don't do much for the user who maybe wants to call in and >>>grab all the messages in misc.jobs.offered so they can read them with the >>>morning coffee. >> >>FSUUCP will do this for you... Propoganda? Sure... > >Great, but that's not what I'm looking for. I want something simple that >someone who wants to use their regular telecomm program, like Procomm or Telix, >can use to pick up news and read it. > >There are a lot of people to whom the addition of one more program is >unthinkable. Not having used FSUUCP, you may have the greatest install in the >world and there's absolutely no debugging involved. Maybe. But I'd bet large >sums of money that it takes a couple of hours of work to get things going. > >Thanks for the info, but I'm looking for something that's a lot more casual >than setting up a full-blown UUCP site. Basically, you want a problem solved with no software??! Naw, that can't be what you really want :-) You could use a PeeCee telecom package that is smart enough to be able to use scripts (I'm sure there is one, right?), a file transfer program for the UNIX site that speaks a protocol that the PC telecom package understands, and a little shell script knowledge. Write a telecom script to dial the UNIX system, log in, run a shell script, and transfer a file back to the PC. The UNIX program needs to look for new messages in the news directories - use .newsrc, or look at file dates in the news directories, batch it all up, and transfer it back to the PC. ben@epmooch.UUCP