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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I NICE News Uncompressing & Unbatching
Summary: rnews -U Preprocessor software offered gratis
Message-ID: <463@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 17:32:57 GMT
References: <189@rancho.uucp>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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In article <189@rancho.uucp> rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
> ...
> I receive news as files with the header "#! cunbatch" and would
> like to lower the priority of both the uncompression and unbatching.

If your system becomes phlegmatic running three copies of rnews, at
200K, while simultaneously forcing compress, at 450K+, through IPC;
I have written some simple programs that solve the problem and do not
require any modifications to inews.

Prior to invoking rnews -U, files in .rnews containing #! cunbatch or
!#c7unbatch are copied to a separate file system.  (Did you ever run out
of inodes and come into work to find that all the batches had been
deleted?)  Those files are then replaced with uncompressed versions
lacking the #!c*unbatch header.  As a result, rnews does not have to
deal with running compress from a pipe.

If you want a copy of the shell script and two small C programs, just
ask.
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John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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