This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Grabbing all your news (was: Re: Hacker FAQ...)
Article: 7745 of alt.hackers From: ats4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (Alan T Shutko) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Grabbing all your news (was: Re: Hacker FAQ...) Date: 01 May 1995 03:12:25 GMT Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Lines: 24 Approved: The fuzzy bunnies everywhere Distribution: world Message-ID: ATS4.95Apr30221226@clarion.cec.wustl.edu <grobsonD7KE78.2vD@netcom.com> <AJRY.95Apr26223312@edge2.st-and.ac.uk> <3nmuvn$70@case.cyberspace.com> <1995Apr30.043328@csv.warwick.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: clarion.cec.wustl.edu In-reply-to: maufr@csv.warwick.ac.uk's message of 30 Apr 1995 04:53:29 +0100 Status: RO
>>>>> "Nicolai" == Nicolai E M Plum <maufr@csv.warwick.ac.uk> writes: In article <1995Apr30.043328@csv.warwick.ac.uk> maufr@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Nicolai E.M. Plum) writes: Nicolai> Well, if you're on a Linux box there's 'slurp' and company, Source for slurp is available on wuarchive.wustl.edu:/packages/news/transport/slurp/ , as well as other places. Check archie. ObStupidFontModelHack: I have a few hundred PS fonts I wanted to use with X. While R6 will work with them, you have to create a fonts.scale file, with the X11 name of each font. So I wrote up a very ugly shellscript which attempts to guess a good name for each font, after grepping for the name, weight, and a few guesses for italics and other attributes. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alan Shutko - Home of the Mighty Morphin' Power Sig - ats4@cec.wustl.edu Data not found: Want me to make it up as I go along? GCS/S d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a-- w+(@) v+++(-) C++++ UL++++ P+>+++ L++ 3 E+++ N++ K++ W--- M-- V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5+++ j R G !tv D- B--- e+>++++ u h f r++ n- y+(**)
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