Is it possible to ln the spool/uucp news files to save space?

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Sat Jul 7 01:55:16 AEST 1990


In article <687 at sci34hub.UUCP> gary at sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>>> [ wants to link outgoing /usr/spool/uucp/D* files ]
>> [ says he's been doing it, suggests how ]
>I'd like to see a mechanisim that would do something like this, but
>I think it'd take an intelligent sendbatch to prepare batches
>common to all (or several) systems....

No, all you need is a way to tell your batcher that this stream of
articles goes to several sites, not just one, and a way to tell uucp
to just make links.  C News provides the former if you've got the latter.
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