From @demon.co.uk,@post.demon.co.uk:steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk Wed Jun 23 18:29:13 1993 Received: from demon.demon.co.uk by rundart.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA1775 ; Wed, 23 Jun 93 18:29:12 GMT Received: from dis.demon.co.uk by demon.demon.co.uk id aa02392; 23 Jun 93 16:01 BST Received: from demon.demon.co.uk by dis.demon.co.uk id aa01086; 23 Jun 93 15:52 GMT-60:00 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by demon.demon.co.uk id aa02186; 23 Jun 93 15:51 BST Received: from orbital.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id ac05474; 23 Jun 93 15:50 BST Received: by orbital.demon.co.uk id AA00668 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for uploads@demon.co.uk); Wed, 23 Jun 1993 15:46:53 +0100 From: Stephen Hebditch Message-Id: <199306231446.AA00668@orbital.demon.co.uk> Subject: Slurp V1.07 To: uploads@demon.co.uk Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 15:46:51 +0100 (BST) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1863 Hiya. Please can you move slurp-1.07.tar.Z from incoming into pub/news/slurp. Announcement thingie follows below. Cheers, Steve. Slurp is an advanced passive NNTP client for UNIX. It will connect to a remote NNTP server and retrieve articles in a specified set of Usenet newsgroups that have arrived after a particular date (typically the last time it was invoked) for processing by your local news system. It replaces nntpxfer from the NNTP 1.5.11 reference implementation and nntpget from the INN distribution. Slurp was written in ANSI C under Dell's SVR4/386, but ports easily to SunOs 4.x, Linux, BSDI BSD/386, HPUX, NeXT, SCO, ISC, Ultrix and most other recent versions of UNIX. If you are running a previous version of Slurp it is *strongly* recommended that you upgrade to this new version. New features:- Improved support for machines with filesystems that don't have long filenames. No longer needs to be running on the same machine as news, so you can, for example, collect news on a machine with an Internet connection which isn't running news and send it out over UUCP to a remote machine which is. Main bug fixes:- Yay! Found it at last! Slurp now works properly on SVR3 machines without stdio collapsing in a heap of memory errors. This might have affected some other architectures too but they didn't behave quite so badly. Under some circumstances, Slurp would fail to parse a list of newsgroups properly into a series of NEWNEWS commands. This is now fixed. Fixed problem where if Slurp was interrupted before the NEWNEWS section had completed, an invalid time would be written to the slurp. file. The usual bits of tidying up to make the Keep C Source Tidy Campaign happy. Available by ftp from ftp.demon.co.uk:pub/news/slurp/slurp-1.07.tar.Z.