When sent over UUCP, news articles are typically joined in a single file called batch file, to reduce UUCP overhead. Batches can also be compressed to reduce the connection time.
Rnews accepts single articles and batch files, either compressed or uncompressed. To uncompress compressed files, Rnews will call GZIP.EXE, which is not part of the Changi distribution.
The next chapters will cover the following topics:
chanx -mt hostname | gzip > batch.Zwhich you may later feed to Rnews.
rnews -Fbatch.Z
URL: changi/manual/rnews.html Created: 3 August 1996 Revised: 13 December 1996 Author: harald@os2point.ping.de |