Compressed nfxmit

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4 total messages Started by William Miskovetz Thu, 10 Dec 1987 00:27

#89

Author: William Miskovetz
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1987 00:27

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Hello,
  Has anyone developed a way to use nfxmit (or some other way) to
transfer notesfiles compressed??  After gatewaying news to notes,
it takes a long time to transfer the notes since nfxmit does not
compress them.  It would be nice it there was a way to get them
compressed and then transferred.  Has anyone done this?  Am I
missing something?  Thanks for any help.

Bill Miskovetz
{ihnp4!lll-winken, pyramid, lll-lcc}!abhg!misko

Re: Compressed nfxmit

#93

Author: berliner
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1987 08:25

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Our /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how file contains lines of the form:

smu:x:::(/usr/local/bin/compress|uux - -n -r smu!"uncompress -c |nfrcv %s %s")

Note that uncompress and nfrcv must be listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/L.cmds
file for this to work.  Hope this helps...

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Brian <nogger> Berliner				What is a nogger, anyway?
Convex Computer Corp.
UUCP: {ihnp4, uiucdcs, sun, rice, allegra}!convex!berliner
ARPA: convex!berliner@rice.arpa

Re: Compressed nfxmit

#91

Author: paul
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1987 21:49

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We use compress all the time for sending notes in a compressed format.

Use the following steps:

In ~notes/net.how, add lines like the following:

ccvaxa:x:::(/usr/local/bin/compress|uux - -n -r -gn ccvaxa!"nfcrcv %s %s")

Note the nfcrcv above.  Have the recipient site add nfcrcv to their list
of approved UUCP commands.  Install it as /usr/bin/nfcrcv.  It's a two
line shell script containing the following:

#! /bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/uncompress | /usr/bin/nfrcv $*

Change the pathnames as needed.  Be sure the execute mode bits are set.
That should do the trick.  The return path usually doesn't need to be
compressed due to the lower volume.


         Paul Pomes

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Re: Compressed nfxmit

#98

Author: jthomp
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1987 11:16

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/* Written  2:25 am  Dec 14, 1987 by convexs.UUCP!berliner in tsunami:news.software.notes */

Our /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how file contains lines of the form:

smu:x:::(/usr/local/bin/compress|uux - -n -r smu!"uncompress -c |nfrcv %s %s")
[...]
/* End of text from tsunami:news.software.notes */


'cept that won't work, if you have 4.3 based uucp.  (4.3 uucp won't allow the '|' to function
properly.)  

So, what you do is this:

have the remote site (smu in this case) prepare a file that looks like:

______  Cut Here ______

#!/bin/sh
zcat | nfrcv $1 $2

______  Cut Here ______

And call it something like: 'getnotes'.  Put 'getnotes' in 'L.cmds' and make the sending site mutter:

smu:x:::(/usr/local/bin/compress|uux - -n -r smu!"getnotes %s %s")

in their 'net.how' file.

I know whereof I speak, notes 'broke' after smu went to 4.3.

Jim Thompson
Convex Computer Corp
Richardson, Tx  75081
convex!jthomp

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