Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!decwrl!infopiz!abekas!abekrd!garyb
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Subject: Re: Cnews - A small assist for managing complex sys files
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.194541.9400@abekrd.co.uk>
From: garyb@abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett)
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 19:45:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.034319.9805@wolves.uucp> <1991Feb22.162040.16112@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb23.221103.13320@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1991Feb24.000606.3890@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.
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In <1991Feb24.000606.3890@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>I don't see any advantage to using multiple sysfile entries over just
>using backslash-newline to split a single entry.

What about when you need to send different 'classes' of news to the same site,
eg
	i)  all files in the 'comp' newsgroup tree and
	ii) all local files no matter which group

so:

	site:comp:f:
	site-local/site:all,!comp:Lf:site/togo

would be relevant entries in the sys file. ('/site' used so that news from
'site' would not be sent back to 'site' via the 'site-local' entry, and '!comp'
so that locally generated 'comp' articles were only sent once via 'site'). Can
_this_ be done without using multiple sys file entries?

Gary

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