Re: NZB to queue.xml transformation

--- In [email protected], Lenny_Nero <Lenny_Nero@...> wrote:
>
> Evzen Polenka said
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I was just wondering if someone with XSLT skills has already 
created a
> > transformation from NZB to BNR's queue.xml format.
> > 
> > It could be used for semi-automated downloads (until a support 
for
> > reading NZB files from command line is added).
> 
> Why ?
> 
> Is it too hard to load them in by hand ???

Personally, I like to be able to do both.

Without meaning to start a GUI/CLI debate, some things
are better done using a GUI, and others are better done
using scripts.

It isn't that it's "hard" doing something by hand, it's 
that at times automating a task takes away the need to be 
sitting at the computer and/or reduces the number of steps 
needed to accomplish that task.


Take, for example, a (not so) hypothetical situation that
applies to at least one friend of mine.

They have unmetered downloads between midnight and 7 AM.
So rather than having to be awake at 5 past midnight to start
their downloads, they set a script to run at 5 past midnight.

Automating mouse clicks isn't as straightforward as being
able to say something like "at -f dlposts.sh 00:05"
(Where "dlposts.sh" is just a script that reads and then 
downloads one or more NZB files using another perl script.)


Word processing, web browsing: perfect jobs for a GUI.
Backing up files, virus scans: perfect jobs for automation.

And so on... :-)


> L.
> 
> -- 
> Want to help to keep the best free usenet servers running ?
> http://www.readfreenews.com
>



Important Addresses:
Post message: [email protected]
Group owner:  [email protected]
BNR homepage: http://www.bnr2.org/
 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bnr1/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bnr1/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto:[email protected] 
    mailto:[email protected]

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    [email protected]

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/