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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: C-news unofficial patch: freeze news batches
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- 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>
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- In article <1993Jan27.225018.13365@coe.montana.edu>, osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
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- | 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.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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