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From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: news forwarding
Message-ID: <4016@b-tech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 10:55:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 10:55:25 1987
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Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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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.

Sure.  Replace rnews on the pass through system with a small program along
the lines of

main()
{
system("uux - othersys!rnews");
}
 
 
 
 


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