At 01:58 PM 6/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering, when dnews sucks from an upstream server, does it use
>the last article number it pulled previously as the starting point or
>does it download all headers from the group and work out which ones it
>doesn't have?
It uses the last number it previously fetched.
>Is it possible to change from one method to the other. I would ideally
>like it to pull down all headers everytime.
That is a bit of an odd thing to want as news servers are not supposed to
ever change old item numbers.
Anyway you can make it do this by issuing this command:
tellnews getold "*" 1000
If you do that in a cron/at job dnews will do what you want.
ChrisP.
