Re: retrieving list of groups to text file

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:30:52 +1000, Rom wrote:

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:21:09 +0200, Axel Schlicht wrote:

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:05:44 +1000, Rom wrote:

Telnet to each news server:
telnet <newsserver> <port>
authinfo user <username> (if required)
authinfo pass <password> (if required)
list newsgroups
copy and paste into a text file.
[...]
I'd never thought of telnet. But this leaves the question of how to pipe
stuff from and to telnet. telnet doesn't seem to accept < and >. I'm using
several news providers, and all of them carry > 10000 groups, so copy and
paste is not possible.

I managed to telnet to my news provider, but typing in all those commands
without echo is also very clumsy, so it's redirection what I need. And ist
took quite some time for the groups list to scroll through.

You should be able to get a list of supported commands in telnet by
typing something like ?/help or help /?

Look for the set and unset commands, then get their list of options.

What OS are you using? I know Win2k and WinXP could set and unset the
local echo, but I don't remember if they can log. Telnet (a feature
not turned on by default) in Vista (which I'm using) can log to a text
file.

Hi
I'm still on Win2K switching over to linux.
Win2K only gives
telnet /?
telnet [host [port]]
host specifies the hostname or IP address of the remote
computer to connect to.
port Specifies the port number or
service name.

That's all.
Any combination with < and > don't work; help telnet gives nothing, and
the Windows Help is useless as usual.
What I managed so far was
1 telnet provider 119
2 type in auth commands, with no echo
3 list
4 see some 10K lines of text scrolling over the screen
5 quit
I can live with 2 but really want to catch the output of 3.

May be possible under Linux.

Thanks anyway

Axel
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