[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have
site prog1
groups jpsoft_support
type program
prog_name d:\dnews\savenews.exe
prog_args y:\jparchive\jparchive.txt
I stopped DNews, deleted the archive file, started DNews, and issued
"tellnews refeed prog1". At the moment, some 10 minutes later,
"tellnews status" tells me
Feed[1]: prog1 file=1377k jpsoft_support
But the file actually contains only 2k, a single article posted since
DNews was restarted. In fact there's about 20MB of articles in that
group which I'd like to archive. Should it work? Thanks!
Well, one can imagine it should work certainly, but sorry, no it won't, the
refeed command resends the list
of articles to the feed queue, which works with feeds that use the article
queue, but not with
the program feed which actually grabs the articles on their way past and never
normally reads the
queue.
Possible work arounds (all a bit ugly sorry)
1) Temporarily install dnews on another pc, (use a temp key) and suck
the groups in question
on, while using the same program feed, then you can generate the
archive.
or
2) Issue the command
tellnews backup_groups "jpsoft_support"
This will create a standard format archive file (in rnews
format).
ChrisP.
