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From: perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News Batching Software
Message-ID: <635@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 06:59:10 EST
Article-I.D.: vu-vlsi.635
Posted: Wed Feb 25 06:59:10 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 21:57:32 EST
References: <2234@meccts.MECC.COM>
Reply-To: perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry)
Organization: Villanova Univ. EE Dept.
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In article <2234@meccts.MECC.COM> ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron) writes:
>...
>called uucast.  Uucast uses link() and a little spit and glue to create
>uucp job files that are destined for a number of systems, as well as
>associating a command with the file:
>
>	uucast file command site1 site2 ...

   In Pyramid ucb universe you can use the -l option to uux and it will
make a link to the original file instead of copying it (the file being
sent and the uucp/spool area must be on the same disk partition for
this to work), so the equivalent of that uucast command is:

	uux -l -n -z "site1!command<" !file
	uux -l -n -z "site2!command<" !file
	...
	rm file

>Uucast seems to work with HDB, Sys III, Sys V, BSD 4.2, BSD 4.3, Ultrix
>versions 1.1 and 1.2, and a few different versions of Xenix.

   I suppose the uux -l option is not available on every system; on the
Pyramid, ucb uux has it but att uux doesn't, so the uucast solution will
be appreciated by many.

   The one thing that is preventing me from finishing the multi-destination
news batching that I've been working on is that for one of the sites we
feed (a vax/vms system) I must just copy the file to their spool directory
and it gets unbatched via a batch job there, and I haven't figured out
how to use uux directly to simply copy a file without sending a command
to be executed on the remote site (uucp itself here does not have -l
flag).  If anyone knows how to do that please let me know...

...Rick			..{cbmvax,pyrnj,bpa}!vu-vlsi!perry
			perry@vuvaxcom.bitnet