brown@noao.UUCP (07/13/84)
Now that Spencer Thomas has posted a general compression utility, has anyone integrated file compression into the "mkbatch" scheme of Erik Fair? regards, Mike Brown National Solar Observatory Tucson, Arizona (602) 325-9249 UUCP: {akgua,allegra,arizona,decvax,hao,ihnp4,lbl-csam,seismo}!noao!brown ARPA: noao!brown@lbl-csam.arpa or brown%arizona@csnet-relay
fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) (07/18/84)
Now, I don't know how someone at `noao' got my mkbatch program, because I have explicitly sent it to sites in the SF Bay Area only, but if you really have it, all you need to do is fix the shell script that came with it. Recall that mkbatch puts out a set of filenames to stdout of the files that contain the batched news, and you can uux/mail/compress/destroy or whatever else with them once you have the names. So, insofar as I can see, there is no reason to hack any knowledge of file compression into mkbatch. Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,hplabs,decwrl,cbosgd,sun,nsc,apple,pyramid}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California