Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!oswego!ostroff
From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Need help with BATCH for B news 2.11
Keywords: #define BATCH
Message-ID: <831@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 25 Jun 88 17:37:34 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.UUCP (Boyd Ostroff)
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Organization: SUNY Oswego
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(-: Please forgive me if these are dumb questions, but this is my first 
setup of the USENET news software :-)

I've got everything compiled on my 3B1 and the USENET and RN software seems
to work fine locally, so my next step is to set up a newsfeed.  In reading
the docs I'm puzzled by Appendix A (Setting up a Compressed, Batched Newsfeed).
It says "First, BATCH must have been #define'd when you built the source
directory.  BATCH should be defined as a program name (by default, unbatch)."

Well, I've grepped through all the def.*, localize.* and *.c files and don't
see ANY reference to BATCH.  Does it really need to be #define'd?  All of the
other #defines that I'm not using have been /* commented out */, but BATCH
just doesn't seem to be there at all.  If I just want to use the default 
"unbatch" program, do I need to define BATCH, or will adding the the "F" flag 
to the third field in my newsfeed's sys entry take care of everything?

Also, appendix A says to add a line to your crontab which runs *hourly* 
saying "sendbatch -c frobozz".  My newsfeed is a long distance call, so
I really don't want to call it hourly.  Does "sendbatch" just spool news
for regualar UUCP transfers, or does it initiate a call?  Why should it
be run hourly instead of once a day?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!  Any other suggestions/tips for
sending batched, compressed news would be most welcome.

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