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- From: jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
- Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
- Subject: Re: How to save all available article to a file?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 22:41:32 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <1h5h6sINNjf9@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <19892@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu
-
- In article <19892@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> putzolu@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (David Putzolu) writes:
- >Here is a question for the news "pro's" out there:
- >
- >Is there any way to pull off all of the articles stored at the local
- >NNTP server for a particular newsgroup & save them to a file?
- >
- >To be more specific: I want to collect _all_ the postings in, say,
- >rec.aquaria, that are currently stored at my local NNTP server. I
- >don't have an accound on the server, so I cannot just copy the
- >spoolfile. Is there some command I can give rn to dump all the
- >messages?
-
- Do you have trn? If so, try using that (it uses the same .newsrc
- and stuff as rn), and in Thread Selection Mode (invoked with the +
- key) you should be able to select all threads (or at least all the
- ones on your screen; I'm sure there's a way to select *all* threads
- but I haven't had occasion to use it), then type "s <filename>" to
- save all the threads to that file. Typing a filename is optional,
- if you don't supply one, the default is the newsgroup name (like,
- Rec.aquaria).,
-
- You have the option of using mailbox format so you can read it
- using your mail reader. I don't know what home machine you use,
- but if you use a Mac, there's a program called EasyView which also
- allows you mail-type reading of text files formatted as Internet
- mail or news.
-
- Hope this helps. There may be a way to do this in rn too, but I
- don't know what it is.
-
-
- --
- Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu | jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu>
- "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
- affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery
-