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From: dws@cseg.uucp (David W. Summers)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Need help translating .newsrc files
Summary: Please post your program!
Message-ID: <1755@cveg.uucp>
Date: 4 Feb 89 06:06:07 GMT
References: <1390@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> <23424@watmath.waterloo.edu>
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In article <23424@watmath.waterloo.edu>, rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White) writes:
> In article <1390@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
> 	Has anybody done this?  I'd like tips, utilities, or whatever.
> 	This host uses NDBM history, while the server uses USG history.
> 
> yeh, i have for BSD 4.x systems.  Its big, ugly and i hate it cause
> billions of warts have been added on since I originally wrote it
> (wait till you switch from one NNTP server to another...) but it was worth
> it given that I've had to do this on about 20 systems which represent
> thousands of users that would lynch me if they ended up with bogus .newsrc
> files.   I don't know what a USG history file looks like.  Shouldn't take
> much to change.  i hope...
> 

Please post this program as it would be VERY useful to people (including me)
that have multiple .newsrc files on different machines and access to different
NetNews servers!

   Thanks in advance!

   - David Summers
   (dws@cseg.uucp)