NAME
     Batcher - NNTP files batcher

SYNOPSIS
     Batcher activefile storagedir spooldir [DELETE]

DESCRIPTION
     Batcher is used to batch all the single NNTPNewsfiles into
     one big batchfile and unbatch the AmiPOP mailbox so that 
     you can use it in AmiGate.

     If you use a NNTP server for getting your favourite news and 
     you are using SPOT/FOOZLE type mailreader to read your fidomail,
     this is the program you want. AmiGate can't (not yet?) deal with
     NNTP files it can only process batchfiles so you have to convert
     the NNTPNewsfiles to one batch file.

     Here's my progy very handy, suppose you have a storagedir where 
     al the alt, rec, misc etc. directories are in and of course you have 
     an activefile (the same one NNTPxfer uses) and you must
     have a directory where the batchfile can go, maybe you want to 
     delete all the processed NNTPfiles you get something like this:

     Batcher uulib:newsdelft uunews: uuspool: DELETE

     Batcher now makes a file uuspool:batch.

     If you use AmiPOP for getting your email, you must set
     AmiPOP so that i will save the Mail Box in
     "uuspool:mailfile". If there's a mailfile then Batcher
     will make the command and data files for amigate also in
     "uuspool:".

     If  you don't like to type all the arguments, make (or edit)
     the file "uulib:config" (or s:uuconfig) in this file put the
     following keywords plus arguments, something like this:

	NNTPSpoolDir uunews:
	NNTPAktiveFile uunews:newsdelft
	NNTPStorageDir uunews:
	NNTPDelete yes

     (watch it keywords are case sensetive and use one SPACE between 
     the keyword and the argument).
     "NNTPDelete yes" will delete the mailbox and NNTP files if you 
     don't want to delete, leave it out or use "NNTPDelete no"

     The only thing left to do is setting up AmiGate and your
     fido mailreader (see AmiGate docs for that delicate job).
 
BUGS/TODO
     No known bugs.

HISTORY
     0.52    Big bug removed. If there where more than 50
             emails the program crashed.
             And the buffer I used was to small (sometimes the path
             line is very long) now the buffer is 1K.
     0.51    Little bug fixed, I didn't check if a
             directory entry is a file or a directory.
     0.50    First Official release.

COPYRIGHT
     Batcher is Freeware (CopyRight by Wim van der Most, 
     no commercial usage or changes to archive allowed, no warranty).

THANKS TO:
     Munk Jacobsen (AmiGate fido <=> UUCP gateway package)
     Scott Ellis   (AmiPOP  p.o.p. client software)
     Autor(s) of INETutils.
     Sandro Tolaini (For finding bugs).

SEE ALSO
     NNTPxfer, INetUtils.LHA, AmiPOP,AmiGate

AUTHOR
     Wim van der Most
     14:101/200.4 (NLANet)
     2:286.310.1  (Fidonet)
     wvdmost@et.tudelft.nl
     wim@voyage.xs4all.nl