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From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 00:00

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Hi there Chris Appleton, I believe it was you who said:

> Well, I have my Thor actions on menus. For example, if I click on "Get News"
> it runs GetTCP with some parameters, like newsserver name, the time to
> rechheck it after (but this never seems to work) and stuff. It also puts out

The preiodic option is only for use with POP3 mail.

> some error messages to a window, like "400 Server Busy". So (and I stress I
> haven't tried it but just thought a lot - I have the sawdust to prove it) if
> you redirect the output to a file, and check it for one of those messages
> you'll know if it's safe to log off or not, i.e. whether it's recieved news
> OK..

Or you can simply check the return code.

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From: neil@wirenet.u-net.com (Neil Bothwick)
Subject: Re: THOR question...
Date: 1996/08/24
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