Subj : ARRL Letter script
To   : Ricky DeLuco
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Nov 08 2023 02:43 pm

Hello, Ricky!

Replying to a message of Ricky DeLuco to Sean Dennis:

 RD> Would you consider sharing the script, me being a geek I would love to
 RD> see your code?

A quick note: ArcaOS has some Linux features and many *nix-based utilities that 
have been ported to it, so this should work as a BASH script with some minor 
modifications.  This technically an OS/2 command script (.CMD):

===
@echo off
rem Last modified 7 November 2023
d:
cd\temp
links -dump -codepage cp437 "http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=current" > 
letter
sed -i '1,42d' letter
sed -i '/Plain-Text/,$d' letter
sed -i 's/Ad//g' letter
sendmsgp $d:\pb\msgs\fiham "Sean Dennis",1:18/200 -s"Weekly ARRL Letter" < 
d:\temp\letter
sendmsgp $d:\pb\msgs\m_ham "Sean Dennis",618:618/10 -s"Weekly ARRL Letter" < 
d:\temp\letter
rm -f ./letter
===

So I'll explain what's going on.

I use the Links web browser to scrape the web page to a CP437-encoded text 
file.

First call to 'sed' deletes lies 1-42 from the top of the file.

Second call to 'sed' searches for the line that has 'Plain-Text' in it, deletes 
that line and the rest of the lines below that line down to the end of the 
file.

Third call to 'sed' searches for the word 'Ad' in the document and deletes 
them.

The two 'sendmsgp' lines call a program I use to write messages into my Squish 
message bases.  The first line posts it here and the second posts it to MIN_HAM 
in Micronet.

I hope I made it easy to understand.

I have all sorts of scripts I've written from getting my hourly weather to 
pulling down the space weather advisories.  Nothing fancy but quite useful.

'sed' is available for several operating systems to include Windows.

-- Sean

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