Synchronize USENET news progress with MT-Newswatcher
Jan 06, '04 08:56:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Jan 06, '04 08:56:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
The problem with reading news (USENET) on several machines is that the articles you've read get out of sync and you have to manually mark them read on computer A if you read them on computer B. If you're like me and use MT-NewsWatcher, there is a good way to work around this -- use the .newsrc file!
.newsrc is just a plain text file that usually resides in your home directory and serves as subscription list for news groups. It's very common in older UNIX usenet applications. But MT-NewsWatcher uses the exact same format. So here is what you do:
.newsrc is just a plain text file that usually resides in your home directory and serves as subscription list for news groups. It's very common in older UNIX usenet applications. But MT-NewsWatcher uses the exact same format. So here is what you do:
- Turn on FTP Sharing on either computer A or B.
- Tell MT-NewsWatcher to upload your group list to the FTP computer with Special -> Send Group List To Host... and check the "Automatically get/put newsrc"
- Open up MT-NewsWatcher on the other computer and tell it to Special -> Get Group List From Host... and also to automatically do so.
- Enjoy!
- Don't read the news on both machines at the same time; the one who quits last will overwrite the other when uploading.
- The computer with FTP Sharing on can have "Computername.local" as hostname in the "Get group list from host..." dialog which will fetch the file even if you don't have a connection (allthough you won't be able to actually read news - duh) :)
- The Filters file and the preferences of the app won't be synced. Perhaps you can utilize this hint for keeping them synchronized?
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