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Article #718Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
From: william E Davidsen
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:19
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:19
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In article <1993Jan27.225018.13365@coe.montana.edu>, osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: | gzip 0.8.1 handles compressed, packed, and the it's new format | completely on it's own. (Also the first file in a Zip 1.9 file also, | but hopefully no-one is using zip for a news feed...) Actually, zip is well suited for a news feed. The articles are batched and run into the zip command: zip batchid - and shipped to the destination where they are processed with funzip. Gzip is just the zip compressor with all the name, mode and context left off. I start with 300k batches before I compress, so that few bytes of header doesn't hurt anything, and can provide interesting creation date info. Naturally this is all hacked, and not into C-news. I have dynafeed at one end and TMNN at the other. -- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345 A terible poker player can have a great hand, A obnoxious fool can have a good idea. Both are winners, regardless of who has them.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!gatech!rpi!crdgw1!rdsunx.crd.ge.com!ariel!davidsen From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.b Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches Keywords: n Message-ID: <1993Jan28.151902.2392@crd.ge.com> Date: 28 Jan 93 15:19:02 GMT References: <fYnlXJc@quack.sac.ca.us> <C1I4Mu.Hn7@zoo.toronto.edu> <1993Jan27.225018.13365@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@crd.ge.com (Required for NNTP) Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: ariel.crd.ge.com