Comments, complains, suggestions, bug fixes can be made to the author:
Russell Street (r.street@auckland.ac.nz)
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A program external to nntplink needs to clean these files up. nntplink comes with such a program, called links but the I was unhappy with it.
rebatch is designed to be run from a crontab and will collect into a single batch file all of the files nntplink will leave behind. The companion script where.to will tell you how many articles in the rebatch batch files, how many have been transmitted and the estimated time to completion based on the average transmission rate.
See the file INSTALLATION for details of how to install, test and run rebatch. See the file THEORY for details on how the package interacts with INN and nntplink.
rebatch has only been tested with INN 1.4 and nntplink. I use nntplink 3.3beta1PL3 (22-Jun-94) on Solaris 2.3. I have used it with nntplink 3.2.
Success has also been reported on:
Much inspiration was taken from INN, especially nntpsend and shlock.
Many thanks to my beta tester(s)
The documentation was written in html and nroff man macros. The plain text of the version of the html files was produced with lynx.
ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/news/rebatch.tar.gzand online documentation from
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/cc/People/RS/rebatch/rebatch may be freely distributed in its unmodified form. If you modify rebatch, and redistribute the modified package, you must clearly document your changes and make it clear that it is modified and where to get the original. Please give me credit for the work I have put into this.