BATCHER(8) InterNetNews Documentation BATCHER(8) (NAME) batcher - (SYNOPSIS) batcher [-rv] [-a articles] [-A total-articles] [-b size] [-B total- size] [-i string] [-N batches] [-p process] [-s separator] host [input] (DESCRIPTION) batcher (host) . UUCP rnews(1) . cron shlock ctlinnd . batcher send-uucp(8) . batcher input . input pathoutgoing inn.conf . ("#") . . API . . ( ) -p . (OPTIONS) -a articles . . . -A total-articles . total-articles . . -b size . 60 KB . "-b 0" . -B total-size . total-size . . -i string . string . ( -p ). -N batches . batches . . -p process . (pipe) process . process sprintf(3) "%s" . : ( echo '#! gunbatch' ; exec gzip -c ) | uux - -r -z %s!rnews gzip uux . -r batcher pathlog/errlog . -r . -s separator . separator sprintf(3) "%ld" . . : #! rnews %ld . -v batcher syslog . . (EXIT STATUS) batcher . -A -B -N batcher : o pathoutgoing/host . o ".bch" input ( input pathoutgoing ) . batcher input ( input ). batcher . (HISTORY) Rich $alz InterNetNews. Russ Allbery POD. (SEE ALSO) ctlinnd(8) inn.conf(5) newsfeeds(5) rnews(1) send-uucp(8) shlock(8). INN 2.7.4 2025-05-09 BATCHER(8)