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Oi, wasn't it you, Paul Brown, who muttered the following?

 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...

There is, if you use the seperate programs GetTCP and SendTCP. Look in the guide
for the parameters. These are binaries, not Arexx scripts by the way.

 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.

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 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..

 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.....

Can't you teach your rabbit to use a mouse? :)

Chris
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