From boby@pixi.com Mon Oct 2 15:51:38 EDT 1995 Article: 14480 of news.software.nntp Path: news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!panix!news.cloud9.net!news.sprintlink.net!wizard.pn.com!news.zeitgeist.net!news.pixi.com!pixi.com!news From: boby@pixi.com (Robert A. Yetman) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Announce: suck-2.4 releaseed! Date: 2 Oct 1995 01:50:34 GMT Organization: The unconfigured xvnews people Lines: 73 Message-ID: <44ngha$36@pixi.com> Reply-To: boby@pixi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mothra08.pixi.com Keywords: nntp, slip, dialup, news, usenet Since there are other users of this besides the Linux community, I am crossposting this here. It may take a day or two to migrate to the correct locations. Check sunsite.unc.edu /pub/linux/Incoming. boby@pixi.com ********************************************************* This is to announce the release of suck-2.4 MAJOR CHANGES ******************************** 1. Changed the name of the new sucknewsrc file from suck.tmp to suck.newrc. This was done so that the name would better show what it actually is. Change your batchfiles to reflect this. ******************************** 2. Moved user-modifible options to config.h 3. Added -d[dtm] options to specify directories on the command line See README for more details. 4. Added Timer option to show elapsed BPS. See config.h 5. Various fixes to allow to compile on Suns 6. Added select for timeout if the link dies. See config.h 7. Added Killfile processing option. See config.h and README for more details. 8. Added capability to download specific messages by message-ID. See README for more details. LOCATION ======== Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/Mail/news File1 = suck-2.4.tar.gz Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu Path2 = /pub/linux/sources/sbin File2 = suck-2.4.tar.gz INTRODUCTION ============ This package contains the following software for copying news from an NNTP server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server. suck Pull a small newsfeed from an NNTP server, avoiding the NEWNEWS command. lpost Gives one article fetched by suck to the local server. rpost Posts article(s) to an NNTP server (like inews). testhost Check to see what commands your host recognizes or get the active list. get.news a script to tie all this together. put.news a script called by rpost (see below) NOTE: Suck will not work with obsolete NNTP servers that can't handle the xhdr command. inn-1.4sec has its own NNTP server that can handle xhdr, cnews.CR-G has no own NNTP server so it depends on which NNTP server you connect to cnews. -- boby@pixi.com