[news.software.b] What is the batched

karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (10/11/88)

Hi there!

I need help.  We're putting together a program set to port our conference
items to and from the net.  The "from" and "to" part we have working -- for
single messages.

What I need now is the batch message format.  When you send a feed batched
but not compressed, it appears to need more informaiton than that required
for a simple "!# inews -S -h" flag type....  it appears that some form of
"encapsulation" in the form of control lines is needed, but the magical
incantations elude me :-)

I haven't had much success in trying to get the news software to produce
one of these files for my inspection, thus this request.  "#! cunbatch"ed
files are easy to generate, but I am not looking for compressed output!

Thanks in advance for any help!  Email please, I will summarize if there is
sufficient interest.

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