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20 minutes to an hour is too long.
I'm ususally only on 10-20 minutes at a time--- slrn works fine for what I
need for the moment.
But I will still take on the project of hacking Pine... and if anyone
wants to help me, I'd be happy-- email me privately if you'd like to help
out.
- Mike
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"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
- Arnold Edinborough
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, aoc2 wrote:
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> hi well you don't need a 24/7 connection to use inn /cnews or whatever.
> you can use the nntp server in concert with suck. this will d/l
> the articles off your isp's server. depending on how many groups
> and articles you want to d/l, it should take no more than 20 minutes to an
> hour.
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
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> > If I had a 24/7 connection, that'd be fine. However, I am forced to
> > dial-in using our voice line, so I have to on & off pretty quickly.
> > Mirring is *NOT* an option. =(
> >
> > - Mike
> >
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> > Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > V: (419) 838-8104 F: (815) 846-9374
> >
> > "Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
> > curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
> > - Arnold Edinborough
> >
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> >
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Mike wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Michael Trausch wrote:
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> > > > The source RPMs contain the "source code" to the software... the actual
> > > > C/C++/Basic/Assembly code, whatever... Most Linux software is in C or C++,
> > >
> > > C, usually.
> > >
> > > > something I need help on. I need to hack Pine (or know if there is a
> > > > patch available that does this for me). I use my local Pine over a modem
> > > > connection, and the NNTP access is *way* too slow, because it appears that
> > > > Pine doesn't keep a local listing of the newsgroups. I would like to hack
> > > > Pine so that it does keep the local listing, and uses it instead of
> > > > persistantly going to the server... of course, the first time, download
> > > > the whole listing.
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone willing to help me on this?
> > > >
> > > The usual solution to this one is to run a local news server which simply
> > > mirrors your ISP's news server. I haven't actually done this (direct
> > > connections are *nice* :) ) but there are plenty of people around that
> > > have. Maybe it would be worth considering this before you start hacking
> > > pine?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Morton's Law:
> > > If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.
> > >
> > >
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