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- From: chorn@eastwind.mcds.com (Christopher Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Current status of the UUBatch project...
- Message-ID: <u1TVXB1w165w@eastwind.mcds.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 08:01:17 EST
- Organization: The East Wind +1 201 875 7063
- Lines: 67
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- Okay, here's the scoop....
-
- I was hoping to release another more complete UUBatch beta this weekend
- but it will be delayed probably about a week or so. It is changing way
- to fast now, so wouldn't make much sense for me to.
-
- To date UUBatch for Waffle/Dos offers...
-
- - Batched/compressed email in uubatch 1.0.5 compatible form.
- Uudebat/uucdebat available for Dos as well, of course.
-
- - Batched/compressed email in the rbmail format. Rbmail was already
- ported and posted sometime ago. Rcbmail included.
-
- - An external compression encapsulation layer. Sites can setup and
- define almost ANY external compression program they want to archive
- mail batches. Has been tested with Arj and Zip, but will work with
- Lha, Zoo, and others. The savings over Unix compress are very impressive.
- Adebatch, an open ended compressed batch reciever, makes this possible.
- Only available for Waffle/Dos <--> Waffle/Dos sites at the moment unless
- someone ports Adebatch to Unix. (Please! Please! It should be easy...)
-
- - A news archiving option that makes use of Adebatch to compress news
- jobs with any external archiver of choice. Just say no to Unix compress.
- Use Arj.... I've seen up to a 15%-20% savings in local tests with it.
-
-
- Currently being added to Uubatch...
-
- - Equivalents for rsmtp, rcsmtp to recieve batched/compressed mail from
- sites running Smail. The ability to generate jobs (batch mail) in
- batched smtp form.
-
- - Support for scanning the feeds file versus repetitive command line use.
- Will have /uubatch= and /uucomp= options, possibly more.
-
- - Better rebatching of queued jobs. Support to rebatch adebatch jobs
- still needs implementing, is more complicated.
-
- - Better I/O handling (currently need enough free memory to read in
- whole files at once, this will change) and error handling.
-
- - I suppose is about time to think about writing docs.
-
-
- Hopefully in the future if I don't get bored....
-
- - Enhanced mail batch mode (already designed) with header substitution.
-
- - Enhanced news batch mode also with header substitution. (Not yet fully
- designed, but idea is simple enough.)
-
-
- I'd like to thank everyone who has inquired, even though I didn't get
- back to everyone by mail. When it settles down to a working release
- again it'll be announced, available by mailserver, and put on Halcyon.
-
- If anyone knows of any other email batching/debatching schemes used by
- UUCP sites anywhere, and can get the specs on their format and what
- programs do what, please notify me and I'll see if I can't try to add
- support for them as well.
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- Christopher Horn | "We're all caught in a state of decay..."
- chorn@eastwind.mcds.com | The East Wind +1 201 875 7063
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