explode(8cn)

explode8cn

Expand a relaynews master batch file into all the ordinary batch files implied

Usage

explode [file ...]

Overview

Explode reads a master batch file produced by relaynews(8CN) and writes all the plain batch files described therein. Explode should be run in /var/spool/news, since the input file will almost certainly contain path names relative to /var/spool/news.

The format of the input file(s) is

# optional comments
<[email protected]> news/admin/12435 2097
F out.going/site1/togo
f /var/spool/news/out.going/site2/togo
n out.nntp/site3
I out.going/site4.wehave/togo

where 2097 is the article size in bytes, and where there is one <message-id> line per article and an F, f, n or I line per site getting that article.

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz).

  1. 1.1–3.0

History

Written by Geoff Collyer at Software Tool & Die.

From cnews cr.g7-31 in Debian 3.0 (Woody). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.