News While U Sleep 12 Hc

I wrote this stack to solve a specific problem, and you only need it if you have exactly the same problem, namely: * You are connected to the Internet via MacTCP; * You have a NewsServer from which you like to read news; but... * You cannot check the news every day, and items are only held temporarily, so that... * You would like to have all the items from certain newsgroups downloaded as textfiles to your computer automatically, periodically, so you don't miss any news; * But the NewsReader you normally use cannot be made to do this for you. This stack handles the problem, except for the "periodically" part, by which I mean, it is up to you to arrange somehow for the stack to run. I use QuicKeys, which starts the stack up every night at 3 am; you will need to devise a mechanism of your own. But once the stack is started up, it will: For every card: * connect to the newsserver named on that card; * download all new items of the newsgroup named on that card, individually, as textfiles, to the folder named on that card; * disconnect from the newsserver; then Quit. Thus I can come in to work the next morning, or the next month, and not have missed any news items from my favorite newsgroup(s); they are all waiting for me as textfiles on my hard disk. Warning (of a sort): this stack is slowwwwww! It is great for unattended use at night when you aren't using your computer for anything else (hence the name), but sitting there watching it run is boring.