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PDScheme/Newshound/NewsHound/Docs/ConfigFile
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| Filename: | PDScheme/Newshound/NewsHound/Docs/ConfigFile |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0791 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
Other details ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The files in !NewsHound.Config have the following purpose: i) Config This is the global configuration file, and contains the nickname (the 3 letters preceding 'Group' from genGroup) of the default newsserver. It also includes the time that message id's are held in the Id History. This is to stop duplicate messages been downloaded - a value around 14 days is normally okay, although slightly longer is better. The number of times to retry, and the delay inbetween them, should the server be busy, is also specified in here. ii) xxxGroup This is the file that contains all the data about the 'xxx' newserver, like its hostname name, and all the newsgroups that are fetched from it. Normally, you don't need to manually edit this - it's all done from newsbase. If you have access to more than one newsserver, you can create more of these files, and can select the news servers from the 'Start Fetch' menu in newshound. iii) GlobalRule This contains a list of statements that allow NewsHound to decide whether to completely ignore an article, download only the header, or download the whole article. This file can be editted manually - do not remove the lines beginning with $'s. It is also modified by the addgroup program. You can use this file to automatically select interesting articles out of groups that are downloaded header only. For example, if I wanted to download all the articles by 'John' in csa.misc, I'd add a line like this: comp.sys.acorn.misc * *John* * * art [group name subject From Bytes Lines Amount] just after the '$ exceptions:' line in !NewsHound.Config.GlobalRule. You can also adjust the maximum size of article that is fetched complete, by changing the line after '$ max articlesize'. Any articles that are bigger than this (100k by default) will only have their headers downloaded, unless you specify otherwise.
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(the 3 | 000000b0 6c 65 74 74 65 72 73 20 70 72 65 63 65 64 69 6e |letters precedin| 000000c0 67 20 27 47 72 6f 75 70 27 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 67 |g 'Group' from g| 000000d0 65 6e 47 72 6f 75 70 29 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 |enGroup) of the | 000000e0 64 65 66 61 75 6c 74 20 6e 65 77 73 73 65 72 76 |default newsserv| 000000f0 65 72 2e 0a 20 20 49 74 20 61 6c 73 6f 20 69 6e |er.. It also in| 00000100 63 6c 75 64 65 73 20 74 68 65 20 74 69 6d 65 20 |cludes the time | 00000110 74 68 61 74 20 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 20 69 64 27 |that message id'| 00000120 73 20 61 72 65 20 68 65 6c 64 20 69 6e 20 74 68 |s are held in th| 00000130 65 20 49 64 0a 20 20 48 69 73 74 6f 72 79 2e 20 |e Id. 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T| 00000490 68 69 73 20 66 69 6c 65 20 63 61 6e 20 62 65 20 |his file can be | 000004a0 65 64 69 74 74 65 64 20 6d 61 6e 75 61 6c 6c 79 |editted manually| 000004b0 20 2d 20 64 6f 20 6e 6f 74 20 72 65 6d 6f 76 65 | - do not remove| 000004c0 0a 20 20 74 68 65 20 6c 69 6e 65 73 20 62 65 67 |. the lines beg| 000004d0 69 6e 6e 69 6e 67 20 77 69 74 68 20 24 27 73 2e |inning with $'s.| 000004e0 20 49 74 20 69 73 20 61 6c 73 6f 20 6d 6f 64 69 | It is also modi| 000004f0 66 69 65 64 20 62 79 20 74 68 65 20 61 64 64 67 |fied by the addg| 00000500 72 6f 75 70 0a 20 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 2e 0a |roup. program..| 00000510 20 20 59 6f 75 20 63 61 6e 20 75 73 65 20 74 68 | You can use th| 00000520 69 73 20 66 69 6c 65 20 74 6f 20 61 75 74 6f 6d |is file to autom| 00000530 61 74 69 63 61 6c 6c 79 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 20 |atically select | 00000540 69 6e 74 65 72 65 73 74 69 6e 67 20 61 72 74 69 |interesting arti| 00000550 63 6c 65 73 0a 20 20 6f 75 74 20 6f 66 20 67 72 |cles. out of gr| 00000560 6f 75 70 73 20 74 68 61 74 20 61 72 65 20 64 6f |oups that are do| 00000570 77 6e 6c 6f 61 64 65 64 20 68 65 61 64 65 72 20 |wnloaded header | 00000580 6f 6e 6c 79 2e 0a 20 20 46 6f 72 20 65 78 61 6d |only.. 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