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- This is a "pseudo" inews which allows remote posting using
- the NNTP server. Essentially it takes a bunch of arguments and ignores
- ones starting with "-", expecting to find at least one which is
- a file name. If no files are specified, it uses standard input
- as the input file.
-
- It then opens a connection to the NNTP server on the remote
- machine and blasts the article across. It then closes the connection.
- If it doesn't find a From: or Path: line, it inserts them, in the
- default format
-
- From: login@hostname.DOMAIN (Full_name)
- Path: hostname!login
-
- where DOMAIN is a #define in ./conf.h, and should be changed to reflect
- your system. A good choice is "UUCP" if you are not a member of the
- Internet. "Full_name" understands the & hack in password files. If
- "HIDDENNET" is defined in ./conf.h, DOMAIN is used as the complete host
- name, and the format used is
-
- From: login@DOMAIN (Full_name)
- Path: login
-
- "hostname" is figured out by what you've #defined in ../config.h.
- If you have defined GHNAME, it uses the gethostname() call.
- If you've defined UUNAME, it figured it out from the file
- /etc/uucpname. Finally, if neither is defined it gets it from
- /usr/include/whoami.h. If you have GHNAME defined and your
- gethostname() returns your fully-qualified Internet name,
- undefine DOMAIN.
-
- The point here is that the thing looks like inews to any program
- which would care to post something (e.g., Pnews, postnews, what have
- you). The difference is that the article will look like it was posted
- on the remote end, not on the local end. Please note that "postnews"
- (nor any of the other standard news programs) is not required for
- rrn/nntp on client machines.
-
- The "test*" files in this directory provide some good test
- material for inews; you can just redirect inews to take input from
- them or whatever.
-
- Thanks to Steven Grady <grady@postgres.berkeley.edu> for
- writing this, and for wasting a lot of his valuable time dealing
- with the can-o'-worms that is the real inews.
-
- BUGS:
-
- This version of inews doesn't handle real inews options. As
- a result, some posting programs (notably the Gnumacs front end) will
- fail if they use this program. In the interests of simplicity, I
- have no plans for modifying mini-inews to handle real-inews options.
- However, if you'd like to send me diffs I'll be more than happy to
- install them for the next release.
-