NAME

sendbatch − send news articles in batches

SYNOPSIS

sendbatch [ −s size ] [ −c ] [ −c7 ] [ −obBC ] site

DESCRIPTION

Sendbatch prepares and transmits a batch of news for unbatching by another machine. 

If sendbatch is called with no flags, it will submit the batched news (from /usr/spool/news/site) queued up for site to uux for transmission and exectution on the remote machine. 

Several flags are available to modify sendbatch’s behavior. 

The −c flag says to use compression to reduce the site of the transmitted file. 

The −c7 flag is normally used for sending articles over X.25 links.  It will cause the batch of news to be compressed, then piped through encode to reduce the 8-bit data into 7-bit characters. 

The −s flag is used to modify the size of the batches. By default, the batch size is 50,000 bytes. 

The −o flag is used with the −c flag to produce and old style compress batch suitable for systems with version 2.10.2 news. 

The −bBC flags are passed directly to compress and may be used to change its compression algorithms if necessary. 

EXAMPLES

To send to a pdp11/70 running 2.10.2 compressed batching:

sendbatch  −c −C −b12 -o sitename

To send to a Vax running 2.10.3 batching:

sendbatch −c sitename

To send to a Vax over an X.25 network using batches of 30,000 bytes:

sendbatch −c7 −s30000 sitename

SEE ALSO

compress(1)

Version B 2.10.3  —  January 17, 1986