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Date:      Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:23:38 +0000 ()
From:      Eric Yagerlener <eyager@novagate.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   A new news program.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970221150434.1233A-100000@localhost>

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I have come across a news utility that would be of value to FreeBSD 
users.  The program is called newsx.  It is alot like slurp, but it 
doesn't use the NEWNEWS nntp command to get it's news off of the NNTP 
server.  It is also more automatic than slurp as it will determine what 
groups to pull based on the sys and news active files.

The program will compile cleanly, but there is a bug in it that prevents
it from correctly reading the entries from the sys file for the server you
want to pull articles off of.  It will always say "Group xxx.xxx.xxxx
disallowed by SYS."  I have gone into sys.c and prevented the program from
disallowing groups based on the SYS file by changing around the if
statements.  However if you have multiple news servers and only want to
pull a few particular groups from each of them, you would have to fix the
broken code in sys.c.

Other than that problem, this program seems to work very well.  The 
sources can be found at http://home.sn.no/home/egilk  .  Hopefully 
someone else might find this program worthwhile.

Thanks.

-- Eric




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