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- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: argh! leftover .D batched news files in my spuul
- Message-ID: <BBTcuB1w165w@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz>
- From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 10:50:46 NZST
- References: <i4s4TB1w165w@sizone.UUCP>
- Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand
- Lines: 52
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- spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep) writes:
-
- > Seems in the last few days i've been getting .D files left in my hosts'
- > spool dir without .X or anything else left over.
- >
- > Its compressed news, but I dont know how to uncompress it by hand to see
- > what I'm losing, due to the #!cunbatch line at the top. (And when
- > removed, compress doesnt like to uncompress it either, says something
- > about Microsoft! (probably stuck somewhere in command.com)).
- >
- > Its not that I'm receiving news and not running UUXQT right after. I am.
- > I am doing uuxqt > uux.log tho, so I can grep for EXPIRES and see how
- > often things get expired.
- >
- > Anyone else have this trouble? No errors show in my logs or anything.
- >
- Yes, I have this problem from time to time. The manual solution is to
- enter
- rnews < filename.d
- But since this is regular for me, I've edited my POLL.BAT file thus:
-
- UUCICO -s all
- uxqt
- cd c:\comms\bbs\spool\nacjack
- for %%f in (*.d) do rnews < %%f
- del *.?
- batch
-
- Note that I change directory to mys host's spool directory, which on my
- system is c:\comms\bbs\spool\nacjack
-
- I then read process rnews for all the .d files, and then delete
- everything in the directory.
-
- CAVEAT: If NACJACK's feed to me is terminated in the middle of sending
- a .D file, I will process the parts I can, and then Nacjack will send
- it again later. So I will have some news items TWICE. This is
- sufficiently rare for me to find acceptable. An alternative would be
- NOT to process all the .D files but [depedning on how often I get my
- feed] only those hanging around for x days [say].
-
- Also note that it is only set up for one site. You could repeat the
- batch lines for each site. I decided that was easier rather than trying
- to automate it for n sites.
-
- Hope this is helpful.
-
- --
- Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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