Re: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files

On 5/10/18 12:53 AM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: Yes. Bag files are a file format used to transfer news via uucp, popularized by dnews. I think they originated with satellite news systems. "Setting up a UUCP feed into DNEWS addsvc -del dposter addsvc -add dposter dposter.exe "dposter -dir c:\uucp\in -to news.here.com" This will search for files called *.bag in the directory c:\uucp\in and after processing them it will delete them. It's your job to write a batch script to get the files in this directory and uncompress them if necessary. You may also need to add ihave access to your own machine: news.here.com:read,post,ihave:::* The BAG/UUCP file format is: #! rnews nnnn ...(article, exactly nnnn bytes, counting each end of line as one byte) #! rnews nnnn ...(next article)... Setting up a UUCP feed out of DNEWS In newsfeeds.conf add a feed, e.g. site site1.name.uucp groups * Add a service (or process to run xmit and dposter) addsvc -add dxmit1 xmit.exe "dxmit1 site.name.edu -at *5 * -uucp c:\dnews\site1 " This will create files called news000n.bag in the directory c:\dnews\site1 It's your job to uucp copy these to the destination sites, and delete them. If you want you can compress them first. :-) The format of the file is: #! rnews nnnn ...(article, exactly nnnn bytes, counting each end of line as one byte) #! rnews nnnn ...(next article)..." -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/