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 In article <880092774.20447.0.nnrp-01.9e98f145@news.demon.co.uk>
  dbolt@my-ste.demon.co.uk (David Bolt) wrote:-

>I used to have a problem with Oasis2, where it would try and loose my news.
>I used to get round it by using MonST2 as a debugger/shell, and skipping
>over the part that threw the bombs, as and when they appeared. Eventually I
>got so p*ssed with it, I deleted all of it, except the folders required by
>newswatch and wrote a program to convert from the Oasis2 to Newsie format.
>I even did one for the headers, with it's own killfile. All I have to do is
>figure out why the compiled version of the unbatch program doesn't want to
>work. The header reader does, but not the unbatcher.

Once you've done that, be sure to make it available to joe public :)

>> >        (Using a Mark X and Magic at the time. I still reckon Oasis / ICE
>> >        is best for news. 400 articles per group with newsie just doesn't
>> >        cut it. I might be tempted to try the FTP client, though.)
>> 
>> I have to agree. I still use Oasis2 (just not ICE).
>
>I can't see any reason for the 400 articles limit. I've started writing
>another program to remove the oldest articles when the 400 file limit is
>reached. It's a bit of a pain, but life wouldn't be half as much fun if
>everything worked perfectly.

John has put some very odd limitations in NEWSie. God knows why! I can't see
any sense at all in limiting these things. The only limit should be memory
and/or disk space.

>> brilliant. It has problems with uploading files when running under STiNG
>> (not STiK though).
>
>As for newsie and it's FTP, it's got a 200 file limit in the FTP directory
>window. That, I think, is a bigger pain than the 400 article limit. It makes
>it impossible to use Umich, and several other sites with large directories,
>as one of Umichs directories has somewhere around 500 entries in it.

200 files is *nothing*. NEWSie's FTP is useless for directories that have
larger numbers of files (such as the RFC directories).
 
>Another thing is the fact that Unix allows filenames to have spaces in it
>and, so far, I haven't found a single FTP package that can cope with it.
>Newsie truncates the display to the first space, MG-FTP displays the full
>name but when downloading, requests a truncated name.

What about aFTP? I'm pretty sure that probably copes. It also allows *you*
to define the limit of number files. I've got mine specified to 6000 files,
which should be more than enough :)

Gary


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