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>On or about 21-Aug-96 15:03:11 Paul Brown typed the following words
>about "THOR question...".  My reply is thus...

> Hi Paul,


 PB>> Hi all,

 PB>> I have a quick question if any one can give me some help.  What I want
 PB>> to do is when I'm away from the keys to get the computer to dial up my
 PB>> provider, download my mail and download my news and logoff.

 PB>> I set it up using a nice cron timing program and have managed to dial in
 PB>> and get my mail and logoff, but getting my news is a different matter..

 PB>> I'm using Thor (the best!) and one of the options is to download mail
 PB>> automatically, but there is no option for news as far as I can see...

>I assume you are having the chron program run ConnectThor from what you
>said. Don't run ConnectThir use GetTCP instead. Take a look at the template
>for GetTCP. If you have evreything set up for news and mail, i.e.
>passwords, sercers, etc., in Thor then allyou need to do is run "GetTCP
><bbsname>" and it will get both mail and news.

 PB>> Have I struck on an idea for a new arexx script for Thor to
 PB>> automatically download news I'm not quite sure but would love to solve
 PB>> this problem once and for all, so I can get completely automated, when
 PB>> I'm not about.

 PB>> Everything else I can do from backups to even switching on the lights
 PB>> and feeding my pet rabbit :-) but getting my news is a different
 PB>> matter.....

 PB>> Regards

 PB>> Paul


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Many thanks John - I cant believe that I have been using Thor for this
amount of time now and havent found that out and I have been through the
docs! :)

Its going a treat now  :)

Once again many thanks...

<tsb> MrX

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