geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) (05/20/91)
chris@lgc.com (Chris Martin) writes: >I'm wondering if anyone has tried to express a somewhat-complex feed by using >two (Cnews) sys file entries to the same batchfile. I'm curious if this might >cause corruption of the batch file. No, it will work just fine. relaynews is aware of the possibility of multiple sys entries per batch file. >site:houston,to.site/all,!local,!lgc:F: >site:all,!to/houston:F: This should do what you want; this is roughly the sort of thing that the distributions subfield was added to address. -- Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff
rich@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) (05/20/91)
Is there a file of FAQ's for this conference? Rich
geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) (05/20/91)
>Is there a file of FAQ's for this conference?
There is no regular FAQ posting yet for this news group.
Eventually Henry or I will stitch together saved mail and articles
answering the same questions over and over and turn them into a FAQ
document.
--
Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoffspike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) (05/21/91)
In article <rich.674707482@mont> rich@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes:
<Is there a file of FAQ's for this conference?
^^^^^^^^^^
This is most definitely a newsgroup!
->Spikebrendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (05/21/91)
spike@world.std.com wrote: >In article <rich.674707482@mont> rich@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes: ><Is there a file of FAQ's for this conference? > ^^^^^^^^^^ > This is most definitely a newsgroup! Well, at least Rich didn't call it a "board". :-) -- Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone
woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) (05/25/91)
In article <1991May20.011845.14572@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes: > chris@lgc.com (Chris Martin) writes: > >I'm wondering if anyone has tried to express a somewhat-complex feed by using > >two (Cnews) sys file entries to the same batchfile. I'm curious if this might > >cause corruption of the batch file. > > No, it will work just fine. relaynews is aware of the possibility of > multiple sys entries per batch file. Yes, but batchsplit doesn't take care to remove duplicate articles from the togo files. Usually if there are two entries which may over-lap in their transmission spec's, the lines will be adjacent in the togo file, and thus instead of the 'mv togo togo.more' in batchsplit, I have 'uniq < togo > togo.more'. We have things like this in our sys file: ] # feed a few regional groups to a neighbor ] # ] neighbor:can,ont,tor,\ ] !eci,!to,to.neighbor/all,!eci,!local:f: ] ] # feed *all* "local" (i.e. within 2 hops) postings to neighbors ] # ] neighbor:all,\ ] !eci,!to,to.neighbor/all,!eci,!local:fL2: I cannot see a simple way to combine these entries, and because of administrator over-load, I don't want to have to carefully edit both such that the second might have "!can,!ont,!tor," added too it. This is the simplest example, and only one of many similar constructs. -- Greg A. Woods woods@{eci386,gate,robohack,ontmoh,tmsoft}.UUCP ECI and UniForum Canada +1-416-443-1734 [h] +1-416-595-5425 [w] VE3TCP Toronto, Ontario CANADA Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible-ORWELL