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From: jthomp@tsunami.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.notes
Subject: Re: Compressed nfxmit
Message-ID: <84100002@tsunami>
Date: 19 Dec 87 11:16:00 GMT
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Nf-From: tsunami.UUCP!jthomp    Dec 19 05:16:00 1987


/* Written  2:25 am  Dec 14, 1987 by convexs.UUCP!berliner in tsunami:news.software.notes */

Our /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how file contains lines of the form:

smu:x:::(/usr/local/bin/compress|uux - -n -r smu!"uncompress -c |nfrcv %s %s")
[...]
/* End of text from tsunami:news.software.notes */


'cept that won't work, if you have 4.3 based uucp.  (4.3 uucp won't allow the '|' to function
properly.)  

So, what you do is this:

have the remote site (smu in this case) prepare a file that looks like:

______  Cut Here ______

#!/bin/sh
zcat | nfrcv $1 $2

______  Cut Here ______

And call it something like: 'getnotes'.  Put 'getnotes' in 'L.cmds' and make the sending site mutter:

smu:x:::(/usr/local/bin/compress|uux - -n -r smu!"getnotes %s %s")

in their 'net.how' file.

I know whereof I speak, notes 'broke' after smu went to 4.3.

Jim Thompson
Convex Computer Corp
Richardson, Tx  75081
convex!jthomp