jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) (02/12/89)
Is it possible for a system to have multiple listings in /usr/lib/news/sys? The reason I ask is that my news feed can only have so many characters per line in his sys file and there is not much room for me to get picky about the groups I receive. I would really like to be able to get even pickier. What I was thinking was to have my feed have multiple sys lines for their system such as the following: telesci:world,usa,na,nj,comp.unix,comp.sources,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.ibm,comp.os,comp.lang.c,comp.mail,comp.risks,comp.terminals,comp.archives:U: telesci:world,usa,na,nj,comp.editors,comp.edu,comp.doc,comp.org,news,alt.bbs,alt.sources,alt.gourmand,nj,misc.forsale,misc.wanted,misc.security,misc.misc:U: telesci:world,usa,na,nj,rec.food,rec.games.frp,rec.games.programmer,rec.games.empire,rec.arts.startrek,soc.college,sci.psychology:U: Would this work? I know it looks messy and all, but I spend so much time online receiving news I don't read at all and my feed said he is limited to a certain number of characters a line, and if this works, it would be a real lifesaver! Any help or information anyone can give would be greatly appreciated! -Jo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Joseph E Poplawski (Jo) | | Home: 1621 Jackson Street Cinnaminson NJ 08077 Phone: +1 609 786-8099 | | UUCP: ...{rutgers!rochester!moscom,princeton,pyrnj}!telesci!fantasci!jep | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
rjwhite@watmath.waterloo.edu (RJ White) (02/14/89)
In article <408@fantasci.UUCP> jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) writes:
Is it possible for a system to have multiple listings in
/usr/lib/news/sys? The reason I ask is that my news feed can
only have so many characters per line in his sys file and there
is not much room for me to get picky about the groups I
receive. I would really like to be able to get even pickier.
yes, you can have multiple entries for a single system. we do it to
control transport mechanism and delivery rate since our sendbatch looks
for files of the name '<urgency><system-name><transport><other-stuff>'
and then run 'sendbatch <whatever-urgency>' from the crontab.
Assuming your feed is running 2.11 news though, you shouldn't have to
split up your entries as it allows 1024 chars per sys file entry.
(tell your feed to look at s_read() in funcs2.c ; LBUFLEN == 1024 in defs.h)
try the following, its more readable : -rj
( be *very* careful you dont have spaces after the last comma on each line )
telesci:world,usa,na,nj,\
comp.unix,comp.sources,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.ibm,comp.os,\
comp.lang.c,comp.mail,comp.risks,comp.terminals,comp.archives,\
comp.editors,comp.edu,comp.doc,comp.org,news,\
alt.bbs,alt.sources,alt.gourmand,\
misc.forsale,misc.wanted,misc.security,misc.misc,\
rec.food,rec.games.frp,rec.games.programmer,rec.games.empire,\
rec.arts.startrek,\
soc.college,sci.psychology:U:sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) (02/14/89)
In article <408@fantasci.UUCP> jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski) writes: }Is it possible for a system to have multiple listings in /usr/lib/news/sys? }telesci:world,usa,na,nj,comp.unix,comp.sources,comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.ibm,comp.os,comp.lang.c,comp.mail,comp.risks,comp.terminals,comp.archives:U: }telesci:world,usa,na,nj,comp.editors,comp.edu,comp.doc,comp.org,news,alt.bbs,alt.sources,alt.gourmand,nj,misc.forsale,misc.wanted,misc.security,misc.misc:U: } }Would this work? I know it looks messy and all, but I spend so much time online It works fine here. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532