jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) (10/26/88)
Someone called from Edmunton recently looking for B news to run on an Altos 586. The Altos is too small to run real B news, due to a 128K per process memory limitation. I was wondering if anyone has a collection of shell scripts which will implement B news for a leaf node. All that is needed is the ability to unbatch news, in some form or another, and to send single articles to another site for posting or whatever. And of course some shell scripts to do news expires and the like. - John. -- John F. Haugh II +----Make believe quote of the week---- VoiceNet: (214) 250-3311 Data: -6272 | Nancy Reagan on Richard Stallman: InterNet: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US | "Just say `Gno'" UucpNet : <backbone>!killer!rpp386!jfh +--------------------------------------
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (10/30/88)
In article <8261@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) writes: >The Altos is too small to run real B news, due to a 128K per process >memory limitation... Curious, we never had any major problems with size (performance was another story...) back in our B-news days on our pdp11, with the same limitation. Admittedly, we never ran 2.11. -- The dream *IS* alive... | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology but not at NASA. |uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
peter@ontmoh.UUCP (Peter Renzland) (10/31/88)
From article <8261@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>, by jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum): > Someone called from Edmunton recently looking for B news to run on an > Altos 586. ... too small to run real B news, due to a 128K per process > memory limitation. I was wondering if anyone has a collection of shell > scripts which will implement B news for a leaf node. I do, but it's in a state of flux, and some of it is rather ugly. If one or two people are really desperate and promise not to show the code to strangers ('cause I'd be embarrassed), and perhaps even agree to improve things, I'll be glad to help. I'm not ashamed of the expire; it's fast, small (<50 lines), and very versatile. Ontmoh keeps articles between 1 and 200 days, and there is a newskeep command to tell users how long each newsgroup is kept and a sortnewsrc command that re-arranges your subscription list to show volatile newsgroups first. The unbatcher is ok too, although it doesn't quite handle multiple downstream sites and feeds properly yet. It needs the new awk (to close files). The older one used csplit, so it's limited to 99 articles/batch, and it's slower. The newsreader is ok, but it's most suitable for (restricted) BBS users and novice users, and only allows posting to local newsgroups. (vn is nicer.) The 16 bit (un)compress takes 450K, so that's out for "someone from Edmonton". Again, this stuff is not in any shape to distribute to strangers. And if I had the time to clean and package it, I'd probably bring up Cnews instead. :-) -- Peter Renzland @ Ontario Ministry of Health 416/964-9141 peter@ontmoh.UUCP