Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!quincy!icus!lenny From: lenny@icus.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Looking for a netnews archiver program Message-ID: <61@icus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 22:28:21 EST Article-I.D.: icus.61 Posted: Fri Nov 27 22:28:21 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Dec-87 03:34:28 EST References: <303@caus-dp.UUCP> Reply-To: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) Distribution: world Organization: ICUS Computer Group, Islip, NY Lines: 29 Keywords: anything! Summary: archiving news... In article <303@caus-dp.UUCP> marcos@caus-dp.UUCP (Marcos R. Della) writes: >I am looking for any program out there that will selectivly archive and >compress news articles that come over the net, taking the sections to >archive from a file. I'm looking not to re-invent the wheel as there is >obviously something out there that several other sites are using... Better >to use someone elses proven code than to create my own bugs inhouse! > >Marcos Della Probably the easiest way to do this is to create a entry in your "sys" file for news unbatching: archive:,,::cat >> /usr/spool/news/Archived When the news program "rnews -U" is executed, any groups that you want will be sent to "archive" and hence concatenated on the end of the file /usr/spool/news/Archived for later use. -Lenny -- ============================ US MAIL: Lenny Tropiano, ICUS Computer Group IIIII CCC U U SSSS PO Box 1 I C C U U S Islip Terrace, New York 11752 I C U U SSS PHONE: (516) 968-8576 [H] (516) 582-5525 [W] I C C U U S AT&T MAIL: ...attmail!icus!lenny TELEX: 154232428 IIIII CCC UUU SSSS UUCP: ============================ ...{uunet!godfre, mtune!quincy}!\ ...{ihnp4, boulder, harvard!talcott, skeeve, ptsfa}! >icus!lenny "Usenet the final frontier" ...{cmcl2!phri, hoptoad}!dasys1!/