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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: netnews
Message-ID: <1701@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 20:37:48 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.1701
Posted: Wed Apr  8 20:37:48 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Apr-87 23:39:53 EST
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
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Keywords: Looking for netnews OS9 Software
Summary: Brute Force news access


     Regarding Terry's request for Net News support under OS-9, we
don't have anything special as yet.  On my local node those of us
with News access also have direct access to the directories.  If
this is the case, and you have Kermit, you can do mass downloads
to an OS-9 system of the relevant directories.  The directory
structure is shown by the news group:

comp.sys.m6809

/usr/spool/news/comp/sys/m6809

     On our system the messages are stored directly by the message
number (the same will be on all Unix systems).  OS-9 6809 has a
problem though, because we can't have diskfile starting with numbers.
OS-9 68K, can (I think--I haven't checked it, but I recall hearing
it did this).  Assuming you will be allowed to take up a bit of
temporary storage, you can write a short program in BASIC09 (or
anything else for that matter) to send the necessary 'cp' messages
to your Unix node to copy the messages to a download directory
and change the names to start with a letter.  After that, you
just send the whole directory via Kermit.  That's a quick solution,
providing you have a working Kermit and only want 1 topic (and
have sufficient disk storage :-).

Cheers! -- Jim O.

PS:  Congratulations for graduating in order?
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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