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From: blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson)
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Subject: Re: C news: expire, and batcher
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Date: 28 Aug 90 01:03:31 GMT
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In article <1990Aug27.172424.18636@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <26817@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes:
>>I've modified batcher not to include Xref: headers.  Actually quite
>>simple.  If there is demand, I'll post an unoffical patch here, but
>>would prefer that it just gets incorperated into the next offical
>>patch.
>
>Unless you've found a really clever way of doing it, it's not likely,
>I'm afraid.  You can't just use egrep, because whatever you do has to
>affect headers *only*.

It's a change to batcher.c, and the only clever part about it is noting
that C news puts the Xref: line first.  If the first 6 characters of
the file are "Xref: " the portion before the first newline is not put
in the batch.  (and the size on the "#! rnews" line changes to match.)
A fair portion of the code is parinoia about Xref lines that exceed
the 8192 byte buffer.  (It would be simpler to impelment a policy
decision to not send such articles on, but the batcher is not the
place to put policy decisions.)


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