The file host.drop is created by Chanx if it is invoked with option -ld and if article filtering is enabled.
The file will be created in a subdirectory of Changi's working
directory, specified by
CHANGIWORKDIR.
The name of the subdirectory will be equal the name of the remote
server's domain. The basename of the file will be equal the remote's
hostname without domain, to which .drop
is appended.
Assuming, that articles from news.ping.de are filtered and CHANGIWORKDIR has been set to C:\CHANGI, then Chanx will create a file named C:\CHANGI\ping.de\news.drop.
Depending on Chanx' retrieval mode, this file will contain three different types of lines, where each line corresponds to a dropped article:
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URL: changi/manual/hostdrop.html Created: 3 August 1996 Revised: 21 November 1996 Author: harald@os2point.ping.de |