rebatch v1.0 Announcement

rebatch is a Perl script that cleans up after NNTPlink. When NNTPlink is run in 'stdin' mode as a channel feed from InterNetNews (INN). It collects the dropped batchfiles into a single batchfile and feeds the remote NNTP server these articles in parallel with the NNTPlink feed.

It is a part replacement for a script called links that is supposed to clean up after NNTPlink when run in that mode, but the rebatch author could never get to work ;)

A companion script where.to tells you how far through a backlog your sites are and the estimated time to completion.

rebatch was written by Russell Street (r.street@auckland.ac.nz) and is available from:

ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/news/rebatch-1.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.auckland.ac.nz/pub/news/rebatch-1.0.shar
Online documentation is available from
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/cc/People/RS/rebatch/
Comments, queries and complaints can be addressed to the author.
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 Russell Street (r.street@auckland.ac.nz) +64 (9) 373-7599 extn 6487
   UNIX Systems Programmer, Computer Centre, University of Auckland
	     http://www.auckland.ac.nz/cc/People/RS.html

	   It's something to do with the shortage of money
	       and the holidays in the South of France.