Contents:

trimhist	- trims UULIB:HISTORY.FIL
rnews		- rnews with history
batchnews	- batchnews that locks UULIB:HISTORY.FIL
postnews	- postnews with ALIASING
histtxt	- creates an ASCII history file using the binary HISTORY.FIL

Here is my package of modified executables from AmigaUUCP1.17 beta 4.

rnews - this program has been modified to create a binary history file of all
message IDs of News articles that it processes (including locally posted ones). 
The program reads the entire HISTORY.FIL into memory, and when done only
appends the new message IDs.  When it Posting mode (-p) it just straight
appends the new message ID.  All the IDs have a stamp of the current date
(julian number). 

trimhist - has one arguement.  The number of days to keep.  It will remove the
records from the front of the HISTORY.FIL that are older than the argument
number of days. 

batchnews - checks to see if the file lock on HISTORY.FIL is present, this is
to prevent batchnews from running the same time rnews is running.  The problem
is that rnews will continue to append to UUSPOOL:batch/<system> and batchnews
is batching up articles.  This usually resulted in duplicate articles being
sent to downstream sites. 

Postnews - This program has been modified to allow for an alias file
"uulib:news.aliases".

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123456789012345678901234567890	junk
397092.programmer.controls	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls
397092.programmer.drivers	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers
397092.programmer.graphics	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics
397092.programmer.memory	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory
397092.programmer.misc		comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
397092.programmer.multimedia	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia
397092.programmer.networks	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks
397092.programmer.ole		comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole
397092.programmer.tools		comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
397092.programmer.win32		comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
397092.programmer.winhelp	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp
397092.networking.misc		comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc
397092.networking.tcp-ip	comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip
397092.networking.windows	comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows
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This exists because DLG uses assigns to access the newsgroups, which it expects
to be the same the newsgroup name.  It fails if the newsgroup is not unique
within the first 31 characters.  DLG truncates the name to 31 characters (which
is an AmigaDOS limitation) when it applies the assign.  This causes problems
with importing newsgroups.  This aliasing is my kluge around the problem.

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All applications here are use at your own risk.  They worked for me when I
had a need for them, and was running V1.17 beta 1 code.  But, the changes
were just quickly applied to the beta 4 code for this release.

-- 
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 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                14857   24376  60.9% -lh5- 1e94 Aug 16  1994 batchnews
[generic]                  298     755  39.5% -lh5- 6073 Sep 21  1994 batchnews.dif
[generic]                 8035   12348  65.1% -lh5- 5035 Sep 24  1994 histtxt
[generic]                  598    1326  45.1% -lh5- e4f7 Apr 18  1994 histtxt.c
[generic]                13536   23032  58.8% -lh5- 0d64 Aug 16  1994 postnews
[generic]                  810    2808  28.8% -lh5- c9b9 Sep 21  1994 postnews.dif
[generic]                 1524    3651  41.7% -lh5- 9bd0 Oct  7  1994 readme
[generic]                22185   36828  60.2% -lh5- 3503 Sep 24  1994 rnews
[generic]                 1378    4049  34.0% -lh5- 3132 Sep 24  1994 rnews.dif
[generic]                10904   16704  65.3% -lh5- 0401 Jun 27  1994 trimhist
[generic]                 1081    2305  46.9% -lh5- 76c6 Jun 27  1994 trimhist.c
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 Total        11 files   75206  128182  58.7%            Oct  7  1994