Re: SLRN vs SLRNPULL

On news.software.readers, in
<57drt2-egf.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Whiskers" wrote:

> On 2005-08-22, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> snip
>
>> In reference to Whisker's and Hammerhead's :-) suggestion
>> about automating slrnpull with a script/cronjob, I prefer to
>> do it manually and use two other aliases:
>
> snip
>
> I use leafnode in a similar way. Whenever I feel like it, I
> click on a 'launcher' in gkrellm, that runs
>
> rxvt -title fetchnews -geometry 93x45 -e sudo
> /usr/sbin/fetchnews -vv

Got it. Open a new 'xterm' that looks to be full screen, and run
an app I don't know that (let me guess) uploads and fetches news
and probably opens slrn when it's finished.

Or do you just keep slrn up in another 'xterm' and hit "G" to
update?

(I really like the name "leafnode".)

> As I'm on an erratic dial-up, I don't want to rely on
> automation. If/when I get broadband I may well see how I get
> on with fetchnews being run automatically on an 'always on
> server' machine.
>

I like my 56K (dream on) dialup.

I was going to download knoppix, but it would have taken about
38 hours.....


AC


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