Re: News and mail as text files?

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <hk68819@pro-applejacks.cts.com>, Michael Kent writes...
> 
> I'm still having a terrible time trying to read my news and mail.  It STILL
> garbles every other line.
> 
> Is there a way to download news and mail as text files (via x-modem), so
> that I can read them off-line?  Do I need a mail reader to do it, or can I
> just use a text file reader?

    Is this on a ProLine system (I noticed your address) or on a UNIX
system?  If you have shell access on a UNIX system with a local news
server (i.e., one that has the /usr/spool/news directory), I can send
you source code for a utility I wrote which very quickly copies all your
unread news and e-mail into text files, ready for downloading.
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