Re: [Pan-users] feature request -- cron-invokable tasks

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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On Tuesday 30 April 2002 13:30, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> someone please tell me if this has already been suggested; or if
> there's an easy way to do this already.

        There is already a way to do this; read on.  :)

> I'd like to be able to put an entry in my crontab, that would invoke
> pan [...]

> combined with the search/download rules, this could be a very
> powerful tool.

        Search on freshmeat.net for "suck" -- this is an automated news 
downloader which supports killfiles, elimination of duplicates, and 
more.  If you want to grab (news|binaries) via your crontab, I'd 
suggest using a tool which is already designed for that purpose.  :)
        I've used it before, but that was years ago... there may be something 
better now, but it was quite good back then!

Good luck,

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