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- Short: BSMTP alike batcher using LhA
- Uploader: simons@peti.GUN.de
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- LharcUUCP -- written by Peter Simons
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- Release 1 (6 April 1994)
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- LharcUUCP is a small tool to speed your uucico transfers up. uucico's
- performance goes down, when you have to transfer plenty of small files, like
- e-mail and the corresponding description file. Larger files, however, are
- transferred at satisfying speed and efficiency--at least with a larger block
- size.
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- The idea is to batch all your e-mail and to transfer this large file
- rather than all of them separately. Additionally, this larger file can be
- crunched much better than the smaller ones. Ideas like this are available
- for several years now, namely BSMTP or RSMTP.
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- But these methods have one significant disadvantage: Once, the mails are
- batched, you can't add any files anymore! This means, that you can't run the
- batcher several times a day without having several smaller files again. And
- if you batch only a few times a day, you're stuck with certain poll-times.
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- "So," I thought, "why not use lharc or any similar archiver?" These
- archivers can crunch the data very well and they can still add files at a
- later time. Additionally, lzh-archives are understood on virtually every
- platform.
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- This is what LharcUUCP does! It scans your spool directory for queued
- jobs and archives them into one file using lharc. Currently, only mail- and
- news jobs are processed. Future versions might batch UUCP file transfers,
- too. Then an appropriate command- (`X.system*') and description file
- (`D.systemX*') is created--to tell uucico what to do with the archive.
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- In case, such an archive already exists when LharcUUCP is issued, it
- adds the new jobs to that archives, *not* creating a second file to
- transfer!
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- On the other side of the transfer, an uuxqt that recognizes the new
- job-type `rlharc' is required.
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