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From: dws@cseg.UUCP (David W. Summers)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: news forwarding
Message-ID: <272@cseg.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 20:24:32 EST
Article-I.D.: cseg.272
Posted: Wed Nov 25 20:24:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 00:18:27 EST
References: <2054@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Lines: 29
Keywords: news,forwarding
Summary: Yes.  I'm doing it!
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In article <2054@dasys1.UUCP>, samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
> Is it possible to have a system (with limited disk space) receive a full
> news feed in compressed/batched format, and then simply pass it on to
> another system (with lots of disk space), without unbatching it and posting
> it locally? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY
> 		...!ihnp4!cmcl2!manhat!samperi
> 		...!ihnp4!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!samperi

Yes,  That's what I'm doing here!  I receive news nightly on my machine, but
since I have a lowly 20 Megs of disk space there is no way I could run news on
my machine.  What I did was to create a shell script called 'rnews' which turns
right around and forwards the news on to the big system that I feed.  An
example which feeds two other machines (more general purpose than just one) is
as follows:

#This routine intercepts NetNews batches and mails them to uafuts!smods
#and cseg!netnews
tee temp | uux - -r cseg\!rnews
cat temp | uux - -r uafuts\!/sysdevl/smods/usenet/bin/rnews
rm temp

This is the easiest way that I found to do it...There might be better ways.

                       - David Summers
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