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NEWSFETCH

Section: User Commands (1)
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NAME

newsfetch - Pull news from an NNTP server and stores in the mail format.

SYNOPSIS

newsfetchhostname[-v | -V][-ddirname][-frc_file][-c][-wM][-tN][-xcommand]

OPTIONS

-V Print version and exit

-d dirname directory where newsfetch will store news

-c If this option is specified, newsfetch will not update .newsfetchrc file

-w M This option tells newsfetch to pause for N seconds after M messages to avoid heavy load on server. Time can be set by -t option (default is 60 Seconds)

-t N time to pause after M articles, in seconds.

-f rc_file This option tells newsfetch to use an alternate rc file

-x command A user command will be executed after fetching each newsgroup. The first occurrence of the string%sin the command will be replaced by the name of the last fetched newsgroup

DESCRIPTION

: %newsfetch news.yourisp.com

: %newsfetch news.yourisp.com -x "command %s"

: %newsfetch $NNTPSERVER

newsfetch pulls news from an NNTP server and writes the articles toa file named same as newsgroup name. The file created by newsfetch can be used with any mail reader.

NEWSFETCHRC

Newsfetch looks for a file.newsfetchrcto see the articles you have already fetched. The format of .newsfetchrc is very simple. Itconsists of one line for each newsgroup. The line contains three fields.The first field is the name of the group. The next field is the highestarticle number that was in the group when that group was last downloaded.The third field limits the number of messages whichcan be downloaded at any given time (-1 for no limit). If there are more messages than this number, only the newest are downloaded.The fields are separated by a space.

: comp.os.linux.networking 1 100

When Newsfetch is finished, it updates article numbers in the file .newsfetchrc.

WEB BASED NEWS INTERFACE

Lots of people have asked for including the web support for the newsfetch. I suggest to use hypermailin combination with newsfetch to make a very good web based news interface (see above, option -x command). hypermail is available from

http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html

HISTORY

: Author - Yusuf Motiwala (yusufAATTscientist.com)

: http://yusuf.home.ml.org

NOTE

Initially, I wrote this utility for personal use. The current version may not have all the features you want, butyou are free to modify the code for your personal use.Feedbacks are welcome.

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