John,
I'm using MHonArc for the same thing. I'm on an NT platform and I use
Free Agent from Forte, a freeware newsreader that allows you to save an
entire newsgroup for off-line reading as a UNIX message file. It seems to
work pretty well with MHonArc.
-- Marc
At 08:55 AM 7/7/98 -0400, John Taylor wrote:
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>I have just installed MHonarc on my system because I would like to archive a
>few news groups ( comp.unix.solaris, comp.mail.sendmail,
>comp.dcom.lans.ethernet, and a few others ). From what I can tell, MHonarc
>needs these news messages in a file or group of files. The only news access
>I have is via NNTP. Do I need to get another program to transfer these
>files to my local system? (If so, which program). Or will MHonarc read these
>groups straight from NNTP?
>
>Ideas??
>
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>
>Thanks
>
>John Taylor Computer Science Department
>System Administrator University of Georgia
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uga.edu/
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>
>
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Marc Lieberman
The MITRE Corporation
McLean, VA
