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- .da 07 May, 1993
- .ss active ([libdir]\news\active)
- .sa rnews, actmake, fixactiv, postnews, readnews
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- This file contains information about all the newsgroups that your system
- knows about and cares to receive. Each newsgroup is on its own line with
- the following format:
-
- group lseq hseq post
-
- eg: comp.mail.uucp 0000000022 0000000142 y
-
- where:
-
- "group" is the name of the newsgroup (eg. comp.mail.uucp)
-
- "lseq" is a word containing the lowest message available in the
- newsgroup.
-
- "hseq" is a word containing the highest message available in the
- newsgroup.
-
- "post" is a character describing the post permissions for that
- newsgroup. "y" allows posting, "n" does not, "x" denotes a placeholder
- newsgroup (for example, comp.bbs, which does not exist, but must
- in order to allow comp.bbs.misc, which does. It is equivelent to "n"
- in the case of posting. "m" denotes a moderated newsgroup.
-
- These fields are maintained automatically by the RNEWS module,
- which is called by UUXQT and READ/POSTNEWS. Actmake and Fixactiv
- also modify the active file.
-