sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) (07/05/90)
Archive-name: uucast/05-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: sl@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) Original-subject: Re: Is it possible to ln the spool/uucp news files to save space? Archive-site: van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca [128.189.233.155] Archive-directory: /pub/news Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <201572@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes: > >In batching all the articles for several sites I feed, I would like >to link all of the D.* files in spool/uucp, (data files only), so that I >could save on disk space. Is this possible, and if so, what format do I >need to create the C.* files in? I've been doing this for years. It works great. You can either fake it with a shell script, by knowing what the name of a file will be after being copied by uux, you can replace it with a link to the file you want sent. Something like: uux site!rnews < /dev/null ln batch /usr/spool/uucp/site/D........ Even better is uucast by Shane McCarron. It allows you to do a multiple site uux like: uucast batchfile rnews sitea siteb sitec sited ..... I don't know where it is available from, I got a copy from somewhere a year or so ago. I've put a copy in: van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca:~ftp/pub/news/uucast.tar.Z If there are enough requests I can post a shar file, it's a fairly small amount of code. -- Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca ubc-cs!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice)