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- .Ch "News Flow"
- .Ix news flow
- .Ix flow
- .PP
- The flow of news articles through C news is as follows:
- a batch is received by some network service and passed to
- .I rnews ,
- .Ix rnews
- which invokes
- .I $NEWSBIN/input/newsspool
- .Ix newsspool
- to queue the batch in
- .B $NEWSARTS/in.coming ;
- .Ix in.coming
- .Ix files in.coming
- eventually
- .I $NEWSBIN/input/newsrun
- .Ix newsrun
- will be run by
- .I cron ,
- .Ix cron
- .I newsrun
- uncompresses any files in
- .B in.coming
- and
- either hands the batch to
- .I $NEWBIN/relay/relaynews
- .Ix relaynews
- locally or invokes
- .I relaynews
- over a network connection on its file server.
- .PP
- .I relaynews
- writes the name of each spool file onto the ends of batch files
- for neighbours.
- Eventually
- .I cron
- runs
- .I $NEWSBIN/batch/sendbatches ,
- .Ix sendbatches
- which
- batches up the outgoing articles and transmits them over some network.
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