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From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Multiple entries for a site in sys file? [FAQ answer]
Message-ID: <1991May25.011320.6441@eci386.uucp>
Date: 25 May 91 01:13:20 GMT
References: <1991May20.004321.18347@lgc.com> <1991May20.011845.14572@world.std.com>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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In article <1991May20.011845.14572@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
> chris@lgc.com (Chris Martin) writes:
> >I'm wondering if anyone has tried to express a somewhat-complex feed by using
> >two (Cnews) sys file entries to the same batchfile.  I'm curious if this might
> >cause corruption of the batch file.
> 
> No, it will work just fine.  relaynews is aware of the possibility of
> multiple sys entries per batch file.

Yes, but batchsplit doesn't take care to remove duplicate articles
from the togo files.  Usually if there are two entries which may
over-lap in their transmission spec's, the lines will be adjacent in
the togo file, and thus instead of the 'mv togo togo.more' in
batchsplit, I have 'uniq < togo > togo.more'.

We have things like this in our sys file:

] #	feed a few regional groups to a neighbor
] #
] neighbor:can,ont,tor,\
] 	!eci,!to,to.neighbor/all,!eci,!local:f:
] 
] #	feed *all* "local" (i.e. within 2 hops) postings to neighbors
] #
] neighbor:all,\
] 	!eci,!to,to.neighbor/all,!eci,!local:fL2:

I cannot see a simple way to combine these entries, and because of
administrator over-load, I don't want to have to carefully edit both
such that the second might have "!can,!ont,!tor," added too it.  This
is the simplest example, and only one of many similar constructs.
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