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!Newsbase/Support/taylor/Doc/lrnews
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| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Acorn User » AU 1995-07.adf » !Internet_StarterPak |
| Filename: | !Newsbase/Support/taylor/Doc/lrnews |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 037C bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
Using lrnews ------------ This is lrnews, a simple unbatcher for incoming news. All it does is take a newsbatch as polled with taylor uucp on stdin, and act upon it depending on what is on the first line. If it finds "#! rnews ..." on the first line, it just copies the article to Uucp$NewsDir. If the first line starts with "#! ", then it copies the article to the Scrap directory and starts the program given in the first line with <Wimp$ScrapDir>.name as input file and <Uucp$NewsDir>.name as output file. Take a look at support.zunbatch and support.cunbatch for examples. Adding other unbatching types ----------------------------- If you want to receive your news packed with, for example, freeze, the quasi-standard header for that would be "#! funbatch". So all you have to do if to write an obey script called funbatch, which contains the line freeze -d < %0 > %1 and that's it.
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