Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Looking for a netnews archiver program Message-ID: <3168@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 21:24:23 EST Article-I.D.: vdsvax.3168 Posted: Tue Dec 8 21:24:23 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 17:31:39 EST References: <303@caus-dp.UUCP> <61@icus.UUCP> <705@vaxine.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 40 Keywords: anything! In article <705@vaxine.UUCP> wmp@vaxine.cs.ulowell.edu (Wayne Power) writes: |To echo Marcos' query, has anybody out there got one? I have two programs from the net that I use. I have modified both of them to suit my needs. First of all, expire will store articles in the same format as the spool directory. You can specify which articles to archive. I archive some newsgroups automatically with this. The second method I use - which keeps a particular article - one I don't usually archive - is with a program called keepnews. While reading an article with rn, I type "|keepnews" . This saves the article, and also modifies two log files. One in the newsgroup directory, one on the top level. I store them in the same directory as the expire'd articles. I then use a program distributed with the USENET software. It is either called savenews or keepnews. It was written by Chuq. What this program does is strip off some of the headers, and store the file in the following format: newsgroup/mm-yy/article-id It also stores a one line summary in the file LOGS/newsgroup I occasionally go thru and compress the older directories. This works well for large archives. Check out the news source directory for the above program. I can send you the diff's of my version, if you wish. It only works with BSD filenames - as far as I know. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!steinmetz!barnett