Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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RNEWS.EXE
News Receiver

Rnews reads news articles sent by a newsfeed and transfers them to the local server to store them in the local newsbase. Articles are read from the specified input file, or standard input if no input file is named.

When sent over UUCP, news articles are typically joined in a single file called batch file, to reduce UUCP overhead. Batches can also be compressed to reduce the connection time.

Rnews accepts single articles and batch files, either compressed or uncompressed. To uncompress compressed files, Rnews will call GZIP.EXE, which is not part of the Changi distribution.

The next chapters will cover the following topics:

  • Usage Examples
  • Command line parameters
  • Environment Variables
  • Return Codes

  • Usage Examples

    Creating and processing a compressed batch file

    By default, Chanx will automatically call Rnews to process incoming news. However, it is possible to feed new articles to GZIP and create a compressed batch,
    chanx -mt hostname | gzip > batch.Z
    
    which you may later feed to Rnews.
    rnews -Fbatch.Z
    

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    URL: changi/manual/rnews.html
    Created: 3 August 1996
    Revised: 13 December 1996
    Author: harald@os2point.ping.de