How does Xpat work?

[pieper]

Xpat is new to me. I know I need to download newsgroups, but don't know how to do this.... the groupfolder remains empty.
Please help someone

[Gompy]

Xpat is new to me. I know I need to download newsgroups, but don't know how to do this.... the groupfolder remains empty.
Please help someone

@foppe

You are member of http://forum.ftd.nu.
I did put a little description in a dutch forum about this matter and how it's working for me.

http://forum.ftd.nu/showthread.php?t=281401&page=13

GL, Gompy

[pieper]

I know, I've read it. First you need to retrieve all newsgroups, Can you tell me how to do this?

[srki]

I know, I've read it. First you need to retrieve all newsgroups, Can you tell me how to do this?

Newsgroups tab->Get groups

[pieper]

Thanks guys,   I see something working
I had this tab turned off and forgotten about it, that's why I got stuck.

[Corwin]

Xpat is new to me. I know I need to download newsgroups, but don't know how to do this.... the groupfolder remains empty.
Please help someone

@foppe

You are member of http://forum.ftd.nu.
I did put a little description in a dutch forum about this matter and how it's working for me.

http://forum.ftd.nu/showthread.php?t=281401&page=13

GL, Gompy

How about putting a little description here in english...

[Corwin]

Or someone else could explain it.

[binzfan]

I was struggling with this so I will post what I found out about XPAT and how it works in altbinz:

XPAT searches the server for articles matching the search term. You can search by subject or poster (author).  

Note that to select the newsgroups you first need to download the newsgroups using the Newsgroups bar, download the list of news groups on your server, then select the groups you want to search on.  Then go to the XPAT search bar, and click on the "Group" box (on the left side) which will reveal the groups you selected in the newsgroups bar. Select the newsgroups you want to search, then do your XPAT search based on poster name or subject.

You can limit the search by message number or by a specified number of posts back from the highest current post on the server. For example, if you want to search the last 5,000 posts, check the "Last" box and enter 5000 in the adjacent window (to the right).

[Corwin]

But is it just text? Or is there some kind of mattern matching?

Also, how do you know it is over?

The search button was disabled, but there were no channels open to the server...

[binzfan]

But is it just text? Or is there some kind of mattern matching?
Also, how do you know it is over?
The search button was disabled, but there were no channels open to the server...

I entered text only. I did not enter wildcard characters but it still returned matching results.  On my screen the search button is disabled until the search is finished, when it becomes enabled again.  If you don't check any newsgroups (under the group button) it will still search but nothing comes back.  There is a log file in the altbiz directory that you can look at to see what happened.  

Good luck.

[Corwin]

Ok.

It would just have been nice if I could enter something which would filter out the binaries, yeah that may sound strange, but sometimes I'd like to see the text posts to a group - but I don't really want to use a newsreader to scan millions of headers for it.

Oh well.

[binzfan]

Ok.

It would just have been nice if I could enter something which would filter out the binaries, yeah that may sound strange, but sometimes I'd like to see the text posts to a group - but I don't really want to use a newsreader to scan millions of headers for it.

Oh well.

If the files you are looking for are text, you might try using  "txt" as your search term and see what happens. I did that with jpg and did get some results.  There is also a filter feature that you can use to filter the results, so you can monkey around with that a bit and see what comes of it.

This program is kind of funny, because the more you mess around with it the more you realize what a great program it is. With no manual or instructions to guide you, you just have to experiment and see what happens. If you discover something try to post it here so others will benefit.  

Cheers!

[Corwin]

I just don't get it, the "seach" button, once pressed will never become available again, but remain grayed out. And it there is no activity from the program.