Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!steinmetz!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: "Archive-name:" proposed change Keywords: multiple part postings Message-ID: <77@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 28 Mar 89 14:18:36 GMT References: <780@usl.usl.edu> <7526@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 28 In-reply-to: mhw@wittsend.LBP.HARRIS.COM (Michael H. Warfield) >> Archive-name: foo/bar/Part01of25 I have a version of savenews that works with any article, and saves it under the form /usr/spool/savenews/news.group/yy-mm/mesage-id Where yy-mm is the year and month of the article. If a compressed version of the file is there, or if two articles with the same message ID comes in, it keeps both copies. I have scripts that weed out duplicates, compress large files, etc. Yes, it doesn't handle the archive name, but it doesn't really bother me. I can grep the LOGS file (which contain the filename and subject line, one file per newsgroup) and extract all of the pieces with a shell script. This allows me to do commands like cd /usr/spool/savenews/LOGS grep -i emacs *editors* gnu* comp.unix* |grep VMS |browse-articles Sources usually end up in the same directory anyway. I can archive older directories onto tape. And it works for any newsgroup. I have about 100,000 articles on disk and 200,000 on tape. Then again, I don't have an automated archival retreival system in place (this machine is not on the internet and has no UUCP links). -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett,