	Did you ever fail to capture a postings because it was too much hassle,
	only to wish you had done so a few months later?  Hopefully its now not
	so much of a problem.

	This posting provides you with some relief for your NetNews habit.  In
	particular, it helps you with the capture and organization of your
	archive of NetNews source postings.  The posting consists of a single C
	program and a few Csh scripts.  The program was developed under Sun OS
	3.4 (i.e., BSD) but should not be too difficult to port to Xenix or
	System V. The Csh scripts may be another matter.  Perhaps a Perl port?

	What you have here is tools to capture the postings as they arrive and
	organize them as they are completed.  The author spends a few minutes
	each day and gets everything he wants.

	Aliases and a configuration file, .narcrc, are part of the total system.
	Here are the ones that the author finds useful.

		alias ton	'pushd $ARCHIVE/$ARCDIR/$ARCVOL'
		alias arc	'setenv ARCDIR \!*'
		alias vol	'setenv ARCVOL v\!*'
		alias text	'setenv ARCDIR text; setenv ARCVOL '
		alias alt	'setenv ARCDIR alt; setenv ARCVOL '
		alias doc	'setenv ARCDIR doc; setenv ARCVOL '
		alias unix	'setenv ARCDIR unix; setenv ARCVOL v16'
		alias misc	'setenv ARCDIR misc; setenv ARCVOL v04'
		alias games	'setenv ARCDIR games; setenv ARCVOL v05'
		alias x		'setenv ARCDIR x; setenv ARCVOL v01'

	and from his .narcrc file

		comp.sources.unix:unix:Posting-number
		comp.sources.misc:misc:Posting-number
		comp.sources.games:games:Comp.sources.games
		comp.sources.x:x:Posting-number
		alt.sources:alt
		comp.doc:doc
		comp.text:text

	Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.  I'd particularly like to 
	hear from Xenix and System V users who might wish to contribute diffs
	for their particular environments.  Or a /bin/sh port of the scripts.
	Whatever.

	I've also included makemap.csh.  I spent some time figuring out a 
	way to make use of the UseNet maps in a way that (a) did not require
	a bunch of repeat processing and (b) did not require the deletion
	of the posting after processing.  This is my solution.  

	Enjoy!

	Geoffrey Leach	
	{att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!laticorp!geoff
