root@kadsma.uucp (Operator) (09/27/89)
Just thought I would follow this up, although it appears to be a case unique
to our news environment. The problem was our news comes in off the ethernet,
mailed to rnews in a format that I was unaware of. A simple fix was required.
Extracted from newsrun just below compress/c7decode stuff:
# isctsse patch:
# Apparently we are a specialized case. Our news comes in
# from the ethernet uncompressed, and undecoded. It has
# a mail header from ektools at the top of each batch, and
# the rest of the batch news articles has a 'N' precedding each
# line. The Cnews software cant deal with that so, I have
# commented out the above compress/encode stuff we dont need,
# and added the following code to filter out the mail header
# per batch, and the 'N' precedding each line.
# 9/26/89 mcmahon
text=$tmp
cat $f | grep '^N' | sed 's/^N//' > $text
# End isctsse modification
Cnews works now (Thanks to the zoo people, we are no longer at the mercy
of our upstream feed putting the load on durring work hours). But let me
know if anyone spots a potential pitfall of this solution.
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Brendan McMahon mcmahon@kadsma.kodak.com ..rochester!kodak!kadsma!mcmahon