On 22 Jun 03 at 22:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > At last.... read (no sending yet) news groups (NNTP) with
> > Arachne.
>
> Hi Alejandro,
>
> this weekend I have been playing a lot with UKA-PPP/YARN,
> including your recently posted Arachne APM. Here is my comment.
>
> Regards
> Christof Lange
>
> UKA-PPP/YARN
> ------------
>
> I started to like a lot YARN ver. 0.92 and set it up for use
> with e-mail as well as for newsgroups. Considering the international
> charset, MIME and the folder management Yarn cannot compete with
> Pmail. But as a news client it is far superior.
>
> When I finally got to work UKA-PPP it seemed to be quite reliable.
> Most important was the reduction of files: I actually kept only 15
> of 167! I finally deleted all those scripts and menus and wrote two
> batch files, one for YARN and one for UKA-PPP. The latter contains
I did the same.
> I consider UKAPPP as an alternative to Arachne on PC386 or lower.
I used it in a 80286 with 1 MBy with hercules.
> *** NNEWS.OOK ****************************************
>
> @echo off
> cls
> echo.
> echo Downloading USENET groups
> echo.
> d:
> cd \arachne
> if not exist IP-UP.bat goto off
> call IP-UP.bat
> rem>wattcp.cfg
> echo my_ip=%myip% >> wattcp.cfg
> echo gateway=%remip% >> wattcp.cfg
> echo netmask=%netmask% >> wattcp.cfg
> echo nameserver=212.20.96.34 >> wattcp.cfg
> echo nameserver=212.20.96.38 >> wattcp.cfg
> echo peermru=%peermru% >> wattcp.cfg
> echo sockdelay=60 >> wattcp.cfg
> echo domainslist="volny.cz" >> wattcp.cfg
I also have ===>>> echo host=citynet.net.ar >> wattcp.cfg
> echo popuser="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> wattcp.cfg
> echo HELO=on >> wattcp.cfg
> echo TZ="-1" >> wattcp.cfg
> set myip=%MYIP%
> :off
> copy wattcp.cfg P:\
> :NNTP
> cls
> echo NEWS
> p:
> cd p:\
> tcpport.exe news.felk.cvut.cz 119 x_nnews.exe test.rc
> pause
> cls
> echo.
I unpack USENET groups offline, after hanging my phone.
> echo Unpacking USENET groups
> echo.
> call nnews.bat
> pause
> d:
> cd \arachne
>
> ******************************************************
> Only a few remarks:
>
> - What took me the most time to find out: for the news server
> the popuser is NOT ("cce.zizkov"), but the complete e-mail
> address ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Probably because you don't have: echo host=citynet.net.ar >> wattcp.cfg
> - TEST.GR : a dummy list should be provided in the APM package,
> in order to prevent the news server from sending a 2,5 MB list.
> e.g. a one-line-file:
>
> !new_groups:030621 125057
I think that "$list: 0" in test.rc does the same.
Sometimes, I download mail with x_popn.exe, I run the following lines:
ren c:\yarn\uka_ppp\spool\*.msg *.cnm
move c:\yarn\uka_ppp\spool\*.cnm c:\pmail\mail\
and read them with Pegasus mail for DOS or Windows.
Free good Sans Serif fonts for MS-DOS at:
http://www.limasa.com.ar/novafont.zip
Configurable dialing menu for several DOS internet programs at:
http://www.limasa.com.ar/dial_ip.zip
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Ing. Alejandro Lieber
Rosario Argentina
lima[at]citynet.net.ar
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