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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Automated news reading software for IBM-PC
Message-ID: <239d4b73@ralf>
Date: 7 Dec 88 15:17:07 GMT
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In-Reply-To: <1880@loral.UUCP>

In article <1880@loral.UUCP>, jcb@loral.UUCP (Jay C. Bowden) writes:
}In article <KPETERSEN.12452025035.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> dmocsny@UCENG.UC.EDU (daniel mocsny) writes:
}>.....assists PC-based CompuServe subscribers. .....
}>... The TAPCIS user tells TAPCIS to get the article titles
}>in the ``forum'' (CompuSpeak for newsgroup) of interest. TAPCIS logs into
}>the CompuServe host, grabs the titles, and then logs off. 
}
}Now, all you need for for complete automation is a device that turns
}your PC on every day at 3AM, gets this list, and prints it for your
}perusal the next morning.  Real Electronic Newspaper!
}
}(Ref: LATER-ON, $139.95, from
}                  Kenmore Computer Technologies
}                        30 Suncrest Drive
}                   Rochester, New York  14609

Why spend $140 when a ten-dollar appliance timer and two-three dollar
three-plug cube (or five-ten dollar cube with spike protection) will do just
as well?  Then put in a timed ask program in your AUTOEXEC.BAT, so that it
will branch to the routine to get the news if there is no keypress within a
certain amount of time.  That's the setup I use here to get Netnews on my
PC.

I'm afraid my package is a terrible kludge, though it does work about 97% of
the time (on the PC side, four programs and a batch file, on the Unix side, a
program and four shell scripts--I'm not counting ZOO and the SZ and DSZ file
transfer modules--and all of it hard-wired....).

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