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- bsnews - Bootstrap News
- copyright 1989 Ronald Florence
-
- Bootstrap News is a collection of programs which enable a
- leaf node to take a news feed without installing a full news
- package. News articles are accumulated in a Unix-mail type
- spool file, where they can be read with a mail reader such
- as Mail or elm.
-
- The Makefile builds the following programs and files:
-
- rnews - run by "uux - yoursys!rnews" from a
- remote system to read single articles,
- batched, or batched and compressed
- news into the news spool.
-
- uurec - reads articles which arrive as mail
- via "sendnews" into the news spool.
-
- pn - a simple news poster.
-
- checknews - monitors whether new news has arrived.
-
- readnews - invokes the mail reader.
-
- /usr/lib/news/seq - last outgoing article number.
-
- /usr/spool/news/bsnews - the mail spool.
-
- To build bootstrap news, make any changes needed in the
- Makefile, and run make. For a uux feed, add rnews to
- /usr/lib/uucp/L.cmds or the equivalent uucp permissions
- file. You will need /usr/bin/compress for compressed feeds.
- For a sendnews feed, create a sendmail alias for rnews:
- "|/usr/bin/uurec", or use cron to run uurec periodically
- with /usr/spool/mail/rnews as input. Adding checknews to
- your .login or .profile file will give you notification of
- new news when you log in.
-
- You may need to customize "pn":
- If your echo uses -n to suppress newlines,
- If logname does not give the user's name,
- If "uuname -l" does not give the system's uucp name,
- To use an editor other than vi to compose outgoing news,
- To proof outgoing articles with a pager other than more,
- Or to post news by mail.
-
- Permission is hereby granted for unlimited non-commercial
- use of these programs, on condition that the copyright
- notices are left intact and any modifications to the source
- code are noted as such. No warranty of any kind is implied
- or granted for this material.
-
- Ronald Florence
- Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT
- ron@mlfarm.uucp
- ...{hsi!aati,rayssd}!mlfarm!ron
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