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

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 04:42:06PM +0200, Urs Janßen wrote:
> > 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

I had to use it with the -r options to pull news, but it works (using tin 1.8.2).
But in the firt run it downloads all news, quit a lot.

> 	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).

thanks, I have maked me a shell script and an alias in my .bashrc with
this. It works :)

> urs

Greetings,
Andreas Salwasser