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        !             9: .TH SENDBATCH 8 "October 13, 1986"
        !            10: .ds ]W  Version B 2.11
        !            11: .SH NAME
        !            12: sendbatch \- send news articles in batches
        !            13: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            14: .BR sendbatch " ["
        !            15: .BI \-s "size "
        !            16: ] [
        !            17: .BI \-i " sitename"
        !            18: ] [
        !            19: .BR \-c " ] ["
        !            20: .BR \-c7 " ] ["
        !            21: .I \-obBC 
        !            22: .RI "] " site
        !            23: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            24: .I sendbatch
        !            25: prepares and transmits a batch of news for unbatching by another machine.
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: If
        !            28: .I sendbatch
        !            29: is called with no flags, it will submit the batched news (from
        !            30: .IR /usr/spool/news/site )
        !            31: queued up for 
        !            32: .B site
        !            33: to 
        !            34: .I uux
        !            35: for transmission and exectution on the remote machine.
        !            36: .PP
        !            37: Several flags are available to modify sendbatch's behavior.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: The
        !            40: .B \-c
        !            41: flag says to use compression to reduce the site of the transmitted file.
        !            42: .PP
        !            43: The
        !            44: .B \-c7
        !            45: flag is normally used for sending articles over X.25 links.
        !            46: It will cause the batch of news to be compressed, then piped through
        !            47: .I encode
        !            48: to reduce the 8-bit data into 7-bit characters.
        !            49: .PP
        !            50: The
        !            51: .B \-s
        !            52: flag is used to modify the size of the batches. By default, the
        !            53: batch size is 50,000 bytes.
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: The 
        !            56: .B \-i
        !            57: flag says to send a batch of Message-IDs with the 
        !            58: .I ihave
        !            59: protocol.
        !            60: .PP
        !            61: The
        !            62: .B \-o
        !            63: flag is used with the 
        !            64: .B \-c
        !            65: flag to produce and old style compress batch suitable for systems
        !            66: with version 2.10.2 news.
        !            67: .PP
        !            68: The
        !            69: .B \-bBC
        !            70: flags are passed directly to compress and may be used to change
        !            71: its compression algorithms if necessary.
        !            72: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            73: .PP
        !            74: To send to a PDP 11/70 running 2.10.2 compressed batching:
        !            75: .ti 1i
        !            76: sendbatch  \-c \-C \-b12 -o sitename
        !            77: .PP
        !            78: To send to a VAX running 2.11 compressed batching:
        !            79: .ti 1i
        !            80: sendbatch \-c sitename
        !            81: .PP
        !            82: To send to a VAX over an X.25 network using batches of 30,000 bytes:
        !            83: .ti 1i
        !            84: sendbatch \-c7 \-s30000 sitename
        !            85: .PP
        !            86: To send to a Sun running 2.11 compressed batching with 
        !            87: .I ihave/sendme
        !            88: :
        !            89: .ti 1i
        !            90: sendbatch \-c \-i sitename
        !            91: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            92: compress(1)

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