Re: Large binary newreader help please!
From: Ohmster (bigbigkitty_at_invalid.anywhere.com)
Date: 05/02/04
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Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:29:48 GMT
Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in
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OMG, this is so freaking kewl, you are a genious, Bit Twister!
> You realy aught to try the command man slrn
Did that already, I couldn't find a way to lauch slrn from the console and
specify which server that I want to use easily. Besides, I would *never* have
been able to figre all of this out. :)
>
> My solution.
> I created a script and pass which server I want to access.
> I then have a launch icon for each server with a command line like
>
> /site/bin/news comcast
> /site/bin/news giga
So what is the name that you created for this script? "news"?
You put the script in /site/bin/ ? Can I just put it in ~/scripts ?
Your script will accept a command line argument like "comcast" or "giga"?
Oh man I gotta try this....
In my ~/.slrnrc I can put my username and password for the server and it
works when I use that server in my /etc/profile file. How do you handle the
user/pass issue with your script? Do you just answer these questions when
slrn loads? This is a bit difficult because giganews gave me a real weird
username and password, I will never be able to remember these items. Can your
script be modified to accept user/pass strings or can your script be modified
to read them from a file?
>
> news script snippet follow:
>
> case $1 in
> giga) NNTPSERVER=news.comcast.giganews.com
> ;;
>
> comcast)
> NNTPSERVER=netnews.comcast.net
> # NNTPSERVER=63.240.76.16 # New Jersey
> # NNTPSERVER=204.127.199.17 # San Francisco
> NNTPSERVER=204.127.204.17 # Central usa
> # NNTPSERVER=216.148.227.77 # San Francisco
> ;;
>
> *) echo " "
> echo "$1 is an invalid selection"
> echo " "
> echo "Usage: news giga"
> echo " news comcast"
> exit 1
> ;;
> esac
>
> export NNTPSERVER
>
> xterm -tn xterm -fn 10x20 -title "news $1 " -geom 100x43+200+200 -e
> slrn -C
This last line I presume sets the window geometry when you use slrn in
xwindows. What does "slrn -C" do?
Wow, this is really cool. Thanks a lot Bit Twister!
-- ~Ohmster
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