Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: compressed news Message-ID: <683@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 2 Oct 89 15:16:16 GMT References: <0830891136201737@thelake.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 14 In article <0830891136201737@thelake.UUCP>, steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) writes: | I'm working on software that will help add Usenet news-handling capability | to UUMAIL, a UUCP-compatible mailer for the Atari ST. I have rnews handing | single and batched newsfiles as described in Mark Horton's RFCxxx draft | "Standard for Interchange of USENET messages [Obsoletes RFC 850]". I'd | like to add the capability to handle compressed news, but I need | information about the format. I presume that it's related to the Look at the bsnews program recently posted. I believe that it handles this. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon