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                      9: .TH SENDBATCH 8 "January 17, 1986"
                     10: .ds ]W  Version B 2.10.3
                     11: .SH NAME
                     12: sendbatch \- send news articles in batches
                     13: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     14: .BR sendbatch " ["
                     15: .BI \-s " size "
                     16: ] [
                     17: .BR \-c " ] ["
                     18: .BR \-c7 " ] ["
                     19: .I \-obBC 
                     20: .RI "] " site
                     21: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     22: .I sendbatch
                     23: prepares and transmits a batch of news for unbatching by another machine.
                     24: .PP
                     25: If
                     26: .I sendbatch
                     27: is called with no flags, it will submit the batched news (from
                     28: .IR /usr/spool/news/site )
                     29: queued up for 
                     30: .B site
                     31: to 
                     32: .I uux
                     33: for transmission and exectution on the remote machine.
                     34: .PP
                     35: Several flags are available to modify sendbatch's behavior.
                     36: .PP
                     37: The
                     38: .B \-c
                     39: flag says to use compression to reduce the site of the transmitted file.
                     40: .PP
                     41: The
                     42: .B \-c7
                     43: flag is normally used for sending articles over X.25 links.
                     44: It will cause the batch of news to be compressed, then piped through
                     45: .I encode
                     46: to reduce the 8-bit data into 7-bit characters.
                     47: .PP
                     48: The
                     49: .B \-s
                     50: flag is used to modify the size of the batches. By default, the
                     51: batch size is 50,000 bytes.
                     52: .PP
                     53: The
                     54: .B \-o
                     55: flag is used with the 
                     56: .B \-c
                     57: flag to produce and old style compress batch suitable for systems
                     58: with version 2.10.2 news.
                     59: .PP
                     60: The
                     61: .B \-bBC
                     62: flags are passed directly to compress and may be used to change
                     63: its compression algorithms if necessary.
                     64: .SH EXAMPLES
                     65: .PP
                     66: To send to a pdp11/70 running 2.10.2 compressed batching:
                     67: .ti 1i
                     68: sendbatch  \-c \-C \-b12 -o sitename
                     69: .PP
                     70: To send to a Vax running 2.10.3 batching:
                     71: .ti 1i
                     72: sendbatch \-c sitename
                     73: .PP
                     74: To send to a Vax over an X.25 network using batches of 30,000 bytes:
                     75: .ti 1i
                     76: sendbatch \-c7 \-s30000 sitename
                     77: .SH SEE ALSO
                     78: compress(1)

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