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micke@qainfo.se (Micke Larsson) writes:
> for some newsgroups I would like to keep old news for future reference.
> Is there an expire utility for DOS Waffle which can stuff away messages
> to a file before they are being expired?

My expire has an option to leave alone messages which have the archive bit
set.  I use this feature so that I can archive the articles posted to
alt.atheism.moderated.

I put

   alt.atheism.moderated /mexp=96,a+

in the USENET file.  A batch file zips up the articles and moves them to the
download area for info-server@mantis.co.uk, then uses ATTRIB -A <file> to
remove the archive bit.

This isn't quite what you wanted, of course.  It's more general.  You can use
it to get what you wanted by using the following 4DOS command:

   for /aa %i in (*.) do (type %i >>! keepfile ^ attrib -a %i)

Note that this archive bit stuff is only in the registered version of expire,
2.2.

> Is there a simple solution or a utility? Anyone? Mathew?

But of course :-)


mathew