NAME
explode - expand a relaynews master batch file into all the ordinary batch files implied
SYNOPSIS
explode [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Explode reads a master batch file produced by relaynews(8CN) and writes all the plain batch files described therein. Explode should be run in /var/spool/news, since the input file will almost certainly contain path names relative to /var/spool/news.
The format of the input file(s) is
# optional comments <[email protected]> news/admin/12435 2097 F out.going/site1/togo f /var/spool/news/out.going/site2/togo n out.nntp/site3 I out.going/site4.wehave/togo
where 2097 is the article size in bytes, and where there is one <message-id> line per article and an F, f, n or I line per site getting that article.
SEE ALSO
news(5), newsbatch(8CN), relaynews(8CN)
HISTORY
Written by Geoff Collyer at Software Tool & Die.