Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!fozzie!stanley From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: continuous reading Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 03:51:25 GMT References: <5596@uafhp.uark.edu> Organization: One Man Brand Lines: 35 netnews@uafhp.uark.edu (Netnews) writes: > > Thanks for the info, but I'm looking for something that's a lot more casual > > than setting up a full-blown UUCP site. > > In the process of trying to set up a full-blown UUCP site, I have > found something to use in the meantime. I set the environment > variable PAGER to "cat". Now I use readnews, so this may not work for > other news-readers. I run a shell under emacs and capture everything > that goes by to a file. Everything that goes by what? It seems that the original problem was not just capturing the info that goes by (still don't know what it is going by), but getting the info in the first place. It helps nothing to have readnews and to set PAGER to "cat" if you don't have a news feed in the first place. > I am sure you could do something similar with > PROCOMM (ech!) or Telix. Without a news feed? I doubt it. About the only thing you can do is find a local (or non-local, if desired) public access Usenet site, and then use Kermit or file-capture to pull the news straight out of the desired directory. > Anybody had better luck with any other uucp packages? Waffle wasn't too bad. <> "If winning is not important, then why keep score?" -- Turtle Head <> "Eaten any good books lately?" -- Q <> "Sanity check!" "Sorry, we can't accept it, it's from out of state." - me