Short: new batcher for news, allowing to use eg. gzip Uploader: holler iamexwi unibe ch Type: comm/uucp Architecture: m68k-amigaos OVERVIEW hbatchnews is a replacement for batchnews. It's main adavantage is the use of an alternative BETTER compressor such as gzip, which will save you about 20%-30% of phonecosts compared to compress(ed) batches. The new release of uucp1.17 by M.B. Smith features an rnews which will allow to use any decompressor as an option. This rnews can also be used with older uucp-versions. Why should you use hbatchnews? Well gzip compresses news far better than the standard compress. You save pure money and may instead spend it for beer. holler@augs1.adsp.sub.org (You may address mail to holler@iamexwi.unibe.ch since adsp will not deliver mail anymore, due to C= problems). May 5th, 1994