Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know that Ben is working on updating the script he uses to pull in the NASA FDN files. You know it goes, I expect.. A site reworks it's sites, links ip addresses or whatever, etc. which turns your previous methodology out the door <g> Just a heads up that he's working on it :)

Take care,
Janis

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Addendum:
Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know that Ben is working on updating the script he uses to pull in the NASA FDN files. You know it goes, I expect.. A site reworks it's sites, links ip addresses or whatever, etc. which turns your previous methodology out the door <g> Just a heads up that he's working on it :)

Take care,
Janis
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And he's got it going again! Thanks Ben!!

Take care,
Janis

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Hallo Janis!

12.04.2018 17:06, Janis Kracht schrieb an All:

I just wanted to let everyone know that Ben is working on updating the script he uses to pull in the NASA FDN files. You know it goes, I expect.. A site reworks it's sites, links ip addresses or whatever,
etc. which turns your previous methodology out the door <g> Just a
heads up that he's working on it :)

Sometime the nasa-apod site is a bit very 'different'. I've fixed the problem some months ago, since they announce some videos as well.

My script uses rexx and wget, because of this my script just works on OS/2. Feel free to connect.


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= ANNOUNCE.024 (2:240/5832) ===================================================
Msg : 11064 of 11065 Loc Scn
From : DatenBahn BBS 2:240/5832 Do. 12. Apr. 23:00
To : Alle
Subj : Neues von der NASA ===============================================================================

Neue Dateien aus dem System SOL:

===============================================================================

AP_102_18.zip 522521 Area: DATENBAHN.NASAAPOD Origin: 2:240/5832
M22 and the Wanderers - NASA Astrobild des Tages

=============================================================================== Requestbar auf allen untenstehenden Lines:

2:240/5832, V34+, CM
2:240/5833, X75, CM
2:240/5834, IBN, CM datenbahn.dd-dns.de, bamberg-ot.de

Gruss Torsten/2


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Take care,
Janis

Bye/2 Torsten

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Hi Torsten,

My script uses rexx and wget, because of this my script just works on OS/2. Feel free to connect.

Great minds think alike Lol.. Yes, my script also uses wget, the date command and lynx. :)

I wrote the original script for Ben years ago, he has since updated/modified it. Works well :)

Thank you for sending the location of yours as well :)

Take care,
Janis

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Hello Janis!

12.04.2018 23:21, Janis Kracht schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

My script uses rexx and wget, because of this my script just works
on OS/2. Feel free to connect.

Great minds think alike Lol.. Yes, my script also uses wget, the date command and lynx. :)

lol A date-command would be nice. ;-)

I wrote the original script for Ben years ago, he has since updated/modified it. Works well :)

Well I've written the script, because I couldn't connect to Ben via binkd. This
was the main reason. While writing the script, I expandet it to announce the headline and description of the daily nasa-apod-picture into the fido file-announcement.

Thank you for sending the location of yours as well :)

Ahm, it was an example of the nightly nasa-apod announcement of my system.
I haven't released the script to public, because nobody asked me to.

Take care,
Janis

Bye/2 Torsten

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Hello Torsten,

13 Apr 18 20:35 at you wrote to Janis Kracht:

lol A date-command would be nice. ;-)

Get JDeBP's 32-bit command line utilities package for OS/2. It has a real "date" command that doesn't prompt you; it just shows the date.

Later,
Sean

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Hello Torsten,

13 Apr 18 20:35 at you wrote to Janis Kracht:

lol A date-command would be nice. ;-)

Get JDeBP's 32-bit command line utilities package for OS/2. It has a real "date" command that doesn't prompt you; it just shows the date.

That's how Ubuntu's date command works... the command with no flags just displays the date:

bbs@filegate:~$ date
Tue May 1 09:01:27 EDT 2018

I use it with various parameters depending on the script:

num=`date +%j --date=Friday`
pick=`expr substr $num 2 3`
year=`date +%Y`

Those lines are from my thursday makenl update script...

Take care,
Janis

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Hello Janis,

01 May 18 09:07 at you wrote to me:

That's how Ubuntu's date command works... the command with no flags
just displays the date:

OS/2's shell has some definite quirks. That package I mentioned fixes many of those quirks and adds some serious functionality.

I love the date command in bash. I use it a lot in BBS-related scripts.

Later,
Sean

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Hi Sean,

That's how Ubuntu's date command works... the command with no flags
just displays the date:

OS/2's shell has some definite quirks. That package I mentioned fixes many of
those quirks and adds some serious functionality.

That's good...

I love the date command in bash. I use it a lot in BBS-related scripts.

Yes, so do I :)

Take care,
Janis

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