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Old November 6th 19, 03:34 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Char Jackson wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

My recollection when I tried the free version (don't know if it was
3.3, or a 2.x version) was that it poorly handled multiple servers.
I think Agent, back then, only handled one server. The workaround
was to make a copy of some config file. You would have a config
file for each server. You copied the customized config file atop the
standard-named config file before you loaded free Agent. I used a
batch file to make the selection which did the overwrite of the
config file and then loaded Agent.


Ugh, that's an ugly way to do it. Not recommended at all. You're on
the right track, though. Early versions officially only supported a
single server, but it's trivial to add multi-server support after the
fact. Later versions added multi-server support without any
tricks/hacks. You obviously tried an earlier version.


What other trick or workaround got the free one-server-only Agent to
handle multiple servers? In the alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent,
I asked how to get Agent back then to support multiple servers, and
editing or switching out the config file was suggested. Rather than do
it manually everytime I wanted to switch servers, I simply used a batch
file to slide in a copy of the config file that was previously edited to
specify a different server.

I think I was trialing the free 2.2 version (was 2.something), because
the 3.3 that out at the time was crippleware (it self-destructed after
the shareware trial). It didn't have multiple server support, I was
using multiple servers, so I had to come up with some workaround to make
it easier to switch between NNTP servers. It did require me to exit
Agent and reload it but with a different config file, so I couldn't
bounce between newsgroups on one server to look at newsgroups (or even
the same ones) on a different server.
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