Re: [newbie] searching way to use tin as offline reader

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 01:41:25PM +0200, Andreas Salwasser wrote:
> Hello tin users, as the subject says it, I'm searching for a simple way
> to use tin as an offline reader. 
> 
> I'm a bit confused about the possibilities thath I have found, e.g.
> using leafnode (but I dont want an news-server) or suck (but seems to
> me I need for suck INN, another news server). I just want a programm
> which download news in a spool dir and remove old news, so that I can
> use tin with it (like slrnpull, but seems that I have to install the
> news reader slrn for this).
> 
> But I'm wondering if tin also can do this alone, but havent found a way
> to do it.

"tin -S" pulls news for later reading, "tin -R" reads the pulled news.
You may need different newsrc for pulling/reading, i.e.:

	tin -vSncf pullnewsrc	# pull new articles
	tin -Rf readnewsrc	# read pulled arts

tin will not expire old news so you have to setup a cronjob to cleanup your
spool ("find ~/News -type f -ctime +30 | xargs -r rm" or whatever). you can't
post in "offline" mode, you have to postpone all artcile you write and post
them later on via "tin -o". "-S"/"-R" were broken in several releases but
they should work again with tin >= 1.9.4 (this feature isn't very well
tested).

urs
-- 
"Only whimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
 on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus