From megalith!nobody@uunet.UU.NET Sun Apr 24 03:28:28 1994 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA27525; Sun, 24 Apr 94 03:28:25 PDT Received: from uucp5.uu.net by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwmzp06795; Sun, 24 Apr 94 06:28:16 -0400 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL ; Sun, 24 Apr 1994 06:28:24 -0400 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16.20/w5, Dec 29 1993, 21:22:55) id <1as5@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Sun, 24 Apr 94 02:38:13 EDT -0400 Return-Path: Sender: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: simons@peti.gun.de (Peter Simons) Message-Number: 784 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 02:38:11 -0400 (EDT) From: simons@peti.gun.de (Peter Simons) (CSAA) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) Subject: LharcUUCP 1.0 available for FTP Status: R TITLE LharcUUCP VERSION 1.0 AUTHOR Peter Simons DESCRIPTION LharcUUCP is a small tool to speed your uucico transfers up. uucico's performance goes down, when you have to transfer plenty of small files, like e-mail and the corresponding description file. Larger files, however, are transferred at satisfying speed and efficiency--at least with a larger block size. The idea is to batch all your e-mail and to transfer this large file rather than all of them separately. Additionally, this larger file can be crunched much better than the smaller ones. Ideas like this are available for several years now, namely BSMTP or RSMTP. But these methods have one significant disadvantage: Once, the mails are batched, you can't add any files anymore! This means, that you can't run the batcher several times a day without having several smaller files again. And if you batch only a few times a day, you're stuck with certain poll-times. "So," I thought, "why not use lharc or any similar archiver?" These archivers can crunch the data very well and they can still add files at a later time. Additionally, lzh-archives are understood on virtually every platform. This is what LharcUUCP does! It scans your spool directory for queued jobs and archives them into one file using lharc. Currently, only mail- and news jobs are processed. Future versions might batch UUCP file transfers, too. Then an appropriate command- (`X.system*') and description file (`D.systemX*') is created--to tell uucico what to do with the archive. In case, such an archive already exists when LharcUUCP is issued, it adds the new jobs to that archives, *not* creating a second file to transfer! On the other side of the transfer, an uuxqt that recognizes the new job-type `rlharc' is required. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS none HOST NAME Any Aminet host, i.e. ftp.uni-kl.de (131.246.9.95). DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/comm/uucp/ FILE NAMES LharcUUCP1_0.lha LharcUUCP1_0.readme DISTRIBUTABILITY GNU General Public License -- Peter Simons, Certified Amiga Developer *** PGP key available *** ACCEPTING: MIME enhanced mail, BMS requests and ListSERV commands Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to postmaster@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu.