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Short: Fast & low memory UUCP news unbatcher
Type: comm/uucp
Uploader: Dan Cannon <dan@blender.demon.co.uk>
Author: Dan Cannon <dan@blender.demon.co.uk>
DanNews - another throbbing Blender Software (BS) production
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This is DanNews, a UUCP news unbatcher. Unlike RNews it's fast and it only
takes as much memory as you let it.
The bad points are that it can't send articles on to other sites and it can't
handle compressed batch files. That doesn't matter if you get your news feed
through NNTP but it's not so good if you get your news through UUCP.
What you need
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Kickstart 2 or above, a news set up that uses the UUNEWS: way of storing news
articles, and a batch file (natch).
Version 0.4 -> 1.0
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- Re-wrote the the file stuff to make it faster. Can't really tell if it is
or not, but I can't be arsed to change it back.
- Added support for the control group.
- Gets newsgroup list from UULIB:DanNewsGroups as well as UULIB:newsgroups,
so you can define extra groups that you don't want your newsreader to show
(makes the control groups easier to manage).
- Fixed CTRL-C memory leak.
- Made error messages clearer.
Version 0.3 -> 0.4
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- It can be given a plain file instead of a batch file (even though, it still
doesn't do local postings).
- Won't complain any more if batch file doesn't exist.
- Won't complain any more if given an empty batch file.
- Won't crash any more with very corrupt batch files.
- Writes .next files out faster.
Version 0.2 -> 0.3
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- It'll accept input from stdin now (eg. "DanNews <some_batch_file").
- If the batch file's corrupt, you get the offset of (roughly) where the
error is. Now load it into an editor, go to the offset, and tidy things up.
It must be an editor that doesn't expand or compress any tabs or spaces.
- Sometimes hitting ^C would leave a file locked. Fixed.
- If you've got hardlinks turned on and the program finds that it can't
hardlink crossposted articles then it tries to save the article normally
instead of just giving an error message and moving on to the next one
(which was what happened last time).
- Added DELETE switch - automatically delete the batch file at the end if
everything unbatched OK.
- Added PATH switch: alter the 'Path' header to include your sitename.
- Added XREF switch: generate 'Xref' headers for your newsreader.
- Added -1 switch: only unbatch to the first group listed in the 'Newsgroups'
header for crossposted articles.
- Added -h switch: turn off hardlinks for crossposted articles.
- Added -n switch: run through the program but don't unbatch anything.
- Added -t option: give directory of tempory work file (only used for
unbatches from stdin).