How to use SOUPER as an NNTP CLIENT, with GIGO ..

Grab the SOUPER12.ZIP or SOUPER13.ZIP packages.  You can probably find them
at the same place you found GIGO.

Unpack the distribution files, and read through the docs.  I am not
attempting to document souper itself, only what I did to receive news with
souper.

You will need to create a "newsrc" file, which tells souper what nwesgroups
to grab down.  It should look something like

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
alt.test: 1
comp.os.os2.announce: 1
alt.magick: 1
alt.rock-n-roll.metal: 1
comp.os.linux.announce: 1
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Note, there should be no extra spaces, blank lines etc.  Souper is very
picky about this (any news program is, actually); if there is anything
"wierd" there, it will have a problem.  The "1" refers to the last messge
read; effectively, it will grab _all_ new messages. The newsrc file is
updated automaticly for the last-read indicator by souper.

The .CMD file I use to grab news follows; there are a few 4OS/2 specific
things in it.  Anything that is 4OS/2 specific should be replaceable. 
Better yet, grab 4OS/2 - you'll be glad you did!

This script will call souper, in news-only mode. It renames the *.MSG files
it downloads (those are NOT fidonet *.MSG files), into *.BAG, and puts them
into the BAGS directory.  GIGO will read these bags just fine.  

GIGO will do it's posting with the GIGOSLIP,GIGOHELP,GIGOMAIL, and INEWS
files.  The INEWS program is the same that comes with Souper (and is
actually, a common news posting program..)


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setlocal
cdd e:\getnews
if not "%1"=="" goto movem

:top
set NNTPSERVER=nntp.calweb.com
set BAGS=c:\spool\bags

souper -m

rename *.msg *.bag /q
set fsize=%@filesize[*.bag,k]
echo Total kbytes - %fsize 

for %s in (*.bag) call %0 %s
echo Sitting for the next 20 minutes.  Hit any key.
inkey /w1200 %%k
goto top

:movem
rem This will make sure that when we move *.MSG to *.BAG, that
rem duplicate names don't happen.
set n=%@eval[ %@name[%1] + %@time[%_time] ]
if exist %BAGS%%n.bag goto movem
move  %1 %BAGS%%n.bag /q


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