Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!hsdndev!bbn.com!papaya.bbn.com!rsalz From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: C News vs nntpxmit in nntp 1.5.11 Message-ID: <3410@litchi.bbn.com> Date: 20 Mar 91 19:10:03 GMT References: <27E4746A.43C3@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar19.022808.24695@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc. Lines: 12 It would be nice to have a printf-like string that says what to write, like F=msf could mean "output to a file, writing the Message-ID, the size in bytes, and the filename..." Enough info seems to be there in inews or relaynews that you could do this. The hard part is that the "flags" fields of the sys file (in both B and C) news is a set of letters, which it should be space or comma-separated. /r$ -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net. Use a domain-based address or give alternate paths, or you may lose out.