List of subscribed newsgroups?

Steve

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Oct 30, 2009, 8:35:50 AM10/30/09

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In V5, is there a file somewhere that contains a list of your
subscribed newsgroups?

Many thanks.

Steve

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Oct 30, 2009, 3:23:42 PM10/30/09

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Doesn't anybody know?

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Bob O'Dyne

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Oct 31, 2009, 1:44:15 AM10/31/09

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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:21 +0000, Richard Cole
<isp...@hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> >Doesn't anybody know?
> Look in Agent.ini under <desks>
All that's there are crypticities like:

> But it won't be much help if you just want a list of newsgroup names like
> alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent

As things stand, it's not of any help. So where/how are the names
stored?

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Steve

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Oct 31, 2009, 12:11:17 PM10/31/09

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Yes, looking there is useless :(

If you look at each 0000000A.IDX etc. file in notepad you can find the
newsgroups, but going through a lot of these if you've subscribed to
lots of groups is impossible. Why have Forte never included an option
to export your subscribed newsgroup list?

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(PeteCresswell)

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Nov 1, 2009, 9:39:57 AM11/1/09

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Per Steve:

>Yes, looking there is useless :(
>
>If you look at each 0000000A.IDX etc. file in notepad you can find the
>newsgroups, but going through a lot of these if you've subscribed to
>lots of groups is impossible. Why have Forte never included an option
>to export your subscribed newsgroup list?

Seems like a low-cost enhancement would be maintaining some sort
of metadata field in each file with the UI's name for the NG.

Maybe populating whatever feeds the "Summary" tab in Windows'
properties dialog.

Then somebody could write a little app to boogie through all the
.IDX and/or .DAT files and build a list.
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Rich Webb

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Nov 1, 2009, 5:58:03 PM11/1/09

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On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:39:57 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid>
wrote:

It's not too hard to parse the agent.ini file with, e.g., Perl to get a
list of IDX/DAT names versus each desk. And the IDX files do contain the
group name strings. Locating the strings in the IDX is a problem,
though.

They're towards the end of each file (a fixed location in a preamble
header would have been nice) and I don't see an obvious way of locating
them other than parsing for a string containing "alt." (for example) and
assuming that is the group name. That would probably work; not very
elegant, though.

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

Ralph Fox

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Nov 5, 2009, 3:25:36 AM11/5/09

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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:23:42 +0000, in message <c9fme5ldtjs9lq4mv...@4ax.com>,
Steve wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:35:50 +0000, Steve <spam...@zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> In V5, is there a file somewhere that contains a list of your
>> subscribed newsgroups?
>>
>> Many thanks.

The file folders.dat contains the names of your subscribed groups
(along with other information).

> Doesn't anybody know?

Not everyone has spare time to respond in the 6 hours 48 minutes between your
two posts. :-)

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Cheers
Ralph

Ralph Fox

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Nov 5, 2009, 3:37:27 AM11/5/09

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On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:39:57 -0500, in message <k97re552kc9cbjua6...@4ax.com>,
(PeteCresswell) wrote:

> Then somebody could write a little app to boogie through all the
> .IDX and/or .DAT files and build a list.

Something like this has already been done for Agent 3.
Go to http://www.gordol.org/agent.html and look for "Agent Folders".

Agent 4: "Agent Folders" works fine, except that the "folder type"
may not be correct because "Agent Folders" has not been
updated to recognize folder schemes. This should not
be a problem for the OP if the OP only wants a list of names.

Agent 5: It should handle top-level folders correctly in Agent 5;
but it also has not been updated to handle subfolders
in Agent 5. I do not know how it will handle subfolders.
As the OP wants newsgroup names, this should not be a
problem for the OP unless the OP has moved newsgroups
to become subfolders.

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Cheers
Ralph