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Conference gyro::internet_toolss

Title:Internet Tools
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Created:Fri Jun 25 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4714
Total number of notes:40609

4588.0. "get articles in batch" by AKING::KRIS () Wed Apr 02 1997 14:29

    I have been using vnews on a VAX system to get unread articles
    in batch mode every night. The procedure is something like this:

	$ set noon
	$ VNews/Batch
	g comp.unix.osf.osf1
	s/g osf1.txt
	q
	$

    However, the account on the VAX system is going to be deleted this
    month, due to cost-cutting reasons.

    I pulled down and built xrn and tin on my UNIX system, but neither
    of these has batch capabilities (unless I missed something). I also
    looked for vnews on alpha-vms and looked through the vnews notesfile
    with no success.

    Any suggestions for getting news articles in batch as shown above
    would be highly appreciated.

    TIA,
    Kris.
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4588.1axel.zko.dec.com::FOLEYhttp://axel.zko.dec.comWed Apr 02 1997 15:376

	Could you not VEST the VAX image to make it run on the Alpha/VMS
	system?

							mike
4588.2will give it a shotAKING::KRISThu Apr 03 1997 09:4715
    That may well work.
    
    I am embarassed to say that I haven't done any serious work on OpenVMS
    for three years, and have no idea how to convert the image. I vaguely
    remember we had to install some software product, and run the converter
    program to convert from a VAX image to an Alpha image, but it's been a
    long time. I'll talk to my colleague and see if this process works for
    us.
    
    Any suggestions to make this work in the UNIX world would also be
    appreciated.
    
    Thanks.
    
    Kris.
4588.3found vnews (Alpha version) but doesn't work in batchAKING::KRISTue Apr 08 1997 15:2913
    I found the Alpha version of vnews.exe in the Internet Product suite,
    which my colleague had installed on his system. After setting up my
    nntp_server logical, I was able to get vnews working properly in
    interactive mode from the prompt on the Alpha system.
    
    However, when doing in batch mode, it simply doesn't work. The help
    file seems to indicate that the s/g command doesn't exist.
    
    I tried various alternatives to get this working in batch, but to no
    avail so far. Any suggestions are welcome.
    
    TIA,
    Kris.
4588.4NEWSRDR works well in batch modeAKING::KRISWed Apr 09 1997 14:5731
    I was able to get what I needed in two different ways.
    
    1. John Kidwell suggested geting NEWSRDR, which I got from
    
    	ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/newsrdr.zip
    
    as per his suggestion.
    
    He have an example procedure
    
    
    	$ newsrdr
    	group comp.os.vms
    	extr/new x.x
    	exit
    	$ exit
    
    
    which I have modified as per my needs. This works quite well.
    
    2. I used expect off my OSF1 system to put the necessary sends and
    expects to capture all new unread messages. This also does the job,
    although it is not as clean (actually I haven't put the effort to make
    it beautiful).
    
    I'll probably use NEWSRDR since it does the job well.
    
    Perhaps the above information will help somebody in the future.
    
    Thanks,
    Kris.