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- CUB - Usenet Batched News Compress/Decompress Utility
- Ver 4.9.88 - 2.0.2
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- This is a complete rewrite of the original version of cub. It will
- handle the compression of the 'new' style batched news (ie: '#! cunbatch'
- will be prepended to the resulting compressed batch file) and the
- decompression of both 'old' and 'new' style inbound news files.
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- The operation of the program has changed in that it now scans the host's
- spool directories and spawns a copy of compress to do the 'dirty' work. As
- such, it is now possible to use a 16-bit version of compress (see the section
- on 16 bit usage for more details).
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- Please note the command line paramaters have changed. For noraml
- use, no paramters are needed.
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- Command line parameters
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- -c - only compress outbound
- -d - only decompress inbound
- -o - will only decompress old style inbound
- -s# - set minimum file size (in bytes) to compress outbound
- (default set at 20000 bytes)
- -x# - set debug level
- -? - the usage screen
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- Note: To disable the compression on a host by host basis, place an
- empty file with the name 'compress.no' in the host's spool
- directory for each host that you don't want outbound news to
- be compressed.
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- Exit Errorlevels
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- The program will now exit with an errorlevel to indciate it's operation.
- -1 - An error occured during processing
- 0 - Nothing was done
- 1 - Outbound news was compressed.
- 2 - Inbound news was decompressed.
- 3 - Both 1 and 2
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- 16 Bit Compression
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- Included in the archive are two compress programs. The first one,
- compress.exe, is a 12 bit version. The other, comp16.exe, is the
- 16 bit version. If you would like to try using the 16 bit version,
- rename compress.exe to comp12.exe and copy comp16.exe to compress.exe.
- Please note, the 16 bit version has been tested for operation but has
- NOT been tested on an actual 16 bit newsfeed.
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- If you do try the 16 bit version, please send a message to pax@ankh
- on how it worked (or didn't <sigh>).
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