From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 21 12:23:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19806 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:23:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pm-mk120.novagate.net [205.138.137.39]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA19798 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:23:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eyager@localhost) by localhost (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01268; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:23:39 GMT Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 15:23:38 +0000 () From: Eric Yagerlener X-Sender: eyager@localhost To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: A new news program. Message-ID: X-Secure: never MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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