Re: 2 questions: 1) list of MIDs, 2) automation

@egroups, cause my own mailsystem is not ready at all yet...

> 1) Could someone explain the getmids.txt file for me?  I've been 

If you are using the function in your newsclient to get an article by 
MID and this MID is not available (anymore) on hamsters database, it 
defaultly try to load the MID from each server he knows of on next 
pull. (but the article at all only once)

> When I do a pull for this server, Hamster said "get list of MIDs" 
and 
> it stays here (for about 15 mins now).  The connection is active and 

If there are MANY MIDs in the file it take long time. It's by far less 
accurate then to pull by number on most servers.

> corrupted by a bug or what? The number of News articles loaded (on 
> the status bar) is going up, but it's not showing me what group it's 
> working on like it has always done before (in the log window).  

GetByMID is independent to the groups, so Hamster can't show ya 
anything.

>   a.  Should Hamster disconnect and stop pulling news at 8am or does 
> the 8am limit simply stop further repetitions (and let the current 
> jobs finish)? 

Latter. If it is not ready on 8am and you have BIG jobs, it will pull 
as long as it may, but normally this is better than to interrupt its 
pull.

>   b.  Will the scheduler start running the subroutine it is told to 
> the next time 2am comes around (the next day), or does that AtAdd 
> only schedule for one day?  If it only schedules for one day, what's 
> the best way to keep it in there each day?

Its more than one day. As long as the script is startet the sheduler 
will work. if you either stop the script(-thread) or restart 
Hamster(or win) it will stop.

>  Some sort of goto/while 
> loop in the script? 

Argl! Don't do such things! ;-)

> I'd appreciate any help you guys can offer!  Thanks much.

HTH


MFG


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