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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to ln the spool/uucp news files to save space?
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.155516.801@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <201572@hrc.UUCP> <773@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> <687@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 90 15:55:16 GMT

In article <687@sci34hub.UUCP> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>>> [ wants to link outgoing /usr/spool/uucp/D* files ]
>> [ says he's been doing it, suggests how ]
>I'd like to see a mechanisim that would do something like this, but
>I think it'd take an intelligent sendbatch to prepare batches
>common to all (or several) systems....

No, all you need is a way to tell your batcher that this stream of
articles goes to several sites, not just one, and a way to tell uucp
to just make links.  C News provides the former if you've got the latter.
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