Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!solo!supernet!cluther
From: cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Gate - simple mail->news->mail gateway suite (Part 1 or 1)
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.205203.4920@supernet.haus.com>
Date: 22 Dec 90 20:52:03 GMT
References: <1990Dec20.031515.6249@supernet.haus.com> <3137@litchi.bbn.com>
Organization: Harris Adacom Corporation
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rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:

>Get the spool file into text, I assume?
>>S=`cat $SFILE`

>If your message has some text that looks like mail
>From: your mother
>for example, you'll get confused.  How about this, instead
>	S=`sed /^$/q <$SFILE`

>If I'm wrong about the original S=`` line, then never mind.

Kinda wrong, sorry.  SFILE points to the output of sendbatches: a file that
contains the file names of the news articles to be inspected for possible
forwarding.

Assigning SFILE --> S allows gatenews to execute for F in $S, thus inspecting
each file given in SFILE.  

Is there a better way???


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