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From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: compressed news
Message-ID: <0830891136201737@thelake.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 89 16:50:56 GMT
Reply-To: stag!thelake!steve@pwcs.stpaul.gov
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Organization: Otter Lake Leisure Society
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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

#! rnews 

header used in news batches, but that is just a guess.

I do have a reliable version of compress/zcat/etc.

Tips would be appreciated.

      Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota        
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