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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uuxqt problems with news
Message-ID: <1820@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 07:51:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 25 07:51:46 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 00:43:00 EDT
References: <116@bvax.UUCP> <311@pollux.UUCP> <1916@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <43878@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: SPOOLNEWS postpones unbatching but nor uncompressing

In article <43878@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>
>	One good solution is to create an rnews script that gets
>	executed via uucp that simply copies the files into a temporary
>	directory with a unique name...
>
>If you define SPOOLNEWS when you compile rnews, you will get this
>behaviour automatically.

Almost, but not quite. With SPOOLNEWS (which requires news 2.11,
incidentally), unbatching and installing of news will be postponed,
but uncompression will be done right away, if your feeds are sending
you files which are totally compressed (2.10.*-style).

If you're on a system with limited memory, you may not want compress
running during the day either. We use a "cunbatch" which is basically
just a "cat".

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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