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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 to
 PB> 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 automatically
 PB> download news I'm not quite sure but would love to solve this problem
 PB> once and for all, so I can get completely automated, when I'm not about.

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

 PB> Regards

 PB> Paul


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