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to: MARTIN FOSTER
from: AUGUST ABOLINS
date: 2020-04-24 20:17:00
subject: oxp: the file areas. cont

On 24/04/2020 6:49 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:


 MF>>>---------- 8< ----------
 MF>>>/FIDO/FILES/NODELISZ /FIDO/FILES/Z2PNT_D
 MF>>>---------- 8< ----------

 AA>>..OK, those are the file areas. And they contain a convenient
 AA>>way to "view" and even E(x)tract the archives. Very nice!

 MF>Yes and a very quick and handy way of reading such things as
 MF>FidoNews.


I was getting settled to hook up with the fnews_publish echo that only
contained
the newsletter separated into separate messages for each page of the edition.
Sometimes I am just interested to go directly to a specific heading/section.

But since the "09 Mar 2020: edition, the auto-posts stopped.  :(

In this case, the more reliable delivery would be the file echo.

OXP to the rescue.


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