UUDecoding on the FLy?

[Bill Davidsen]

Kai Henningsen wrote:

> I have something like that set up for INN 1.7something:
> 
> newsfeeds:
> DbFeed\
>         :*\
>         :Tx,Wf,B40960/0:/somewhere/dbfeed.pl

Looks as if this assumes that you have the articles in individual files, 
which may or may not be practical in a given group.

Another problem with this is that I see a LOT of posts which uudeview 
can't handle, probably generated by non-standard yENC implementations. 
That's not related to your solution, of course.

I have an offline approach, pulling the articles from nnrpd and piping 
them into uudeview. Doesn't address the decoding problem, of course, but 
it's portable to non-INN systems.

> dbfeed.pl:
> #! /usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> use strict;
> use Data::Dumper;
> $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
> use POSIX;
> 
> my $spool = strftime("/var/spool/news/bin.out/%Y-%W", localtime);
> mkdir $spool, 0777;
> while (<>) {
> 	#print "$0: ",Data::Dumper::Dumper(\$_);
> 	chomp;
> 	system("/usr/bin/uudeview -i -p $spool $_ >/dev/null 2>&1");
> }
> 
> MfG Kai
> 


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