Enhancement to rnews 2.10.2 sys:F option

Jerry Aguirre jerry at oliveb.UUCP
Sat Aug 17 04:52:59 AEST 1985


This enhancement allows a default for the :F: option is the news 2.10.2
sys file.  It works like the default uux command.  I find that it keeps
the sys file shorter with less chance of errors.

A sys line of the form:
	remotesys:net,fa,mod,to.remotesys:F

Will cause the article pathname to be appended to the file:
	BATCHDIR/remotesys

This is the pathname that the sendbatch and csendbatch scripts expect.
You can still override this by explicitly specifying the path.

*** ifuncs.orig	Tue Sep 18 18:13:47 1984
--- ifuncs.c	Fri Aug  2 12:40:57 1985
***************
*** 155,161
  		sprintf(TRANS, "%s/%s/%s", logdir(HOME), BATCHDIR, sp->s_xmit);
  		ofp = fopen(TRANS, "a");
  #else
! 		ofp = fopen(sp->s_xmit, "a");
  #endif
  		if (ofp == NULL)
!  			xerror("Cannot append to %s", sp->s_xmit);
 		fprintf(ofp, "%s\n", firstbufname);
  		fclose(ofp);

--- 170,180 -----
  		sprintf(TRANS, "%s/%s/%s", logdir(HOME), BATCHDIR, sp->s_xmit);
  		ofp = fopen(TRANS, "a");
  #else
! 		if (*sp->s_xmit == '\0') {
! 			sprintf(bfr, "%s/%s", BATCHDIR, sp->s_name);
! 			ptr = bfr;
! 		} else ptr = sp->s_xmit;
! 		ofp = fopen(ptr, "a");
  #endif
  		if (ofp == NULL)
!  			xerror("Cannot append to %s", ptr);
 		fprintf(ofp, "%s\n", firstbufname);
  		fclose(ofp);

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				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
{hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry



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