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From: lda@clyde.UUCP (Larry D. Auton)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: how batch & unbatch work
Message-ID: <231@clyde.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 19:42:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 19:42:37 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Nov-83 08:32:39 EST
References: <224@clyde.UUCP> <671@ulysses.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs Whippany NJ
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Thanks for the critique, Steve.  Your point is well taken.  I have
encountered the problem of batching very large files, too.  I diddled
up a shell that solved the problem pretty well.  I have included it
below.  It breaks the batches into groups of twenty articles each.
Batches of this size are usually quite manageable for uucp.

This same technique is useful for sending a bunch of news to a new
netnews site.  This way the new site can get a load of old news from
their feed in batches that are of resonable length.

BATCHDIR=/usr/spool/batch
cd $BATCHDIR
for rmt in akgua burl floyd ihnp4	# sites that we feed news
do
    batchfile=$BATCHDIR/$rmt
    if test -s $batchfile
    then
         rm -f x??
         split -20 $batchfile
         >$batchfile
         for xfile in x??
         do
             /usr/lib/news/batch $BATCHDIR/$xfile|uux - -r -go -z -n $rmt!rnews
         done
    fi
done
rm -f x??
/usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1&
-- 
Larry Auton WECo @ BTL WH 2C-123 (201)386-4272 ihnp4!clyde!lda