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- # THIS IS AN EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILE AND IT MUST BE EDITED BEFORE
- # USING IT FOR YOUR OWN SYSTEM !!!
- #
- # Configuration parameters for SNEWS for KA9Q. Amend this to suit your
- # own setup. The fields surrounded by angle brackets (<>) are
- # placeholders - you must fill in the correct details (*without* angle
- # brackets). This file should live in the news base directory as
- # defined by the SNEWS environment variable.
- #
- # There are a condiderable number of comments (lines preceeded by '#')
- # in this file. They are not needed by Snews and provided as a means
- # of documenting this sample file. If they are removed it will speed up
- # the loading of Snews (slightly).
- #
- # newsserver
- # The fully qualified domain name of your news server.
- #
- newsserver=news.demon.co.uk
- #
- # nodename
- # The name of your host.
- #
- nodename=<myNode>
- #
- # newsdir
- # The full path to the directory where incoming articles are
- # spooled.
- #
- newsdir=<c:\nos\spool\articles>
- #
- # domain
- # The name of the domain of which your host is part.
- #
- domain=demon.co.uk
- #
- # tempdir
- # The full path of your temporary directory.
- #
- tempdir=<c:\tmp\>
- #
- # userid
- # Your user name.
- #
- userid=<myName>
- #
- # signature
- # The name of your signature file.
- #
- signature=<myName.sig>
- #
- # name
- # Your full name.
- #
- name=<myName F. Bloggs>
- #
- # organization
- # Your organization's name.
- #
- organization=<myOrganisation>
- #
- # editor
- # The path to your editor program (plus any flags required). Put "%s"
- # where the name of the file to be edited should go.
- # NB: the single quotes are required by MKS ksh. They may not be
- # required by other shells.
- #
- # For example Brief ...
- #editor=b %s
- # or using TED ...
- #editor=ted %s
- editor=<yourEditor>
- #
- # editline
- # The parameters that need are passed to the editor to place the cursor
- # at a specified line. Put "%d in the string at the point where the actual
- # line number should appear. Omit this item if your editor does not support
- # such a command.
- #
- # For example using Brief ...
- #editline=-m"goto_line %d"
- editline=
- # Ted does not support this option.
- #
- # home
- # The full path of your home directory (used to find your signature file).
- # (Note: if your home is the root directory on a drive, DO NOT add the
- # trailing slash, i.e., use c: rather than c:\).
- home=<c:\nos>
- #
- # mailqueue
- # The full path of the ka9q outbound mail spool directory.
- #
- mailqueue=<c:\nos\spool\mqueue>
- #
- # quotemark
- # The line prefix for quoting included articles
- # If the '_' (underscore character) is placed in this item, it is
- # converted to a space when quoting.
- #
- quotemark=>_
- #
- # biosvideo
- # biosvideo=1 to force video access via the Bios Int10 (slow but reliable)
- #
- biosvideo=0
- #
- # colour
- # Colour Settings for Snews 1.9 (DIS 1.18) or later
- colour helpf yellow+
- colour helpb black
- colour textf white
- colour textb black
- colour headf blue
- colour headb white
- colour msgf red
- colour msgb cyan
- #
- # replyto
- # The mail address for replies mailed in answer to a posting
- #
- replyto=<myName@myNode.demon.co.uk>
- #
- # The name of the pseudo user that will receive the news posting log.
- # Leave blank or set to none for no local copy.
- #
- # The default for this item is "newspost" if no mailuser line is found
- # in snews.rc
- #
- # If you leave this item blank, or set it to the word 'none' no copies
- # of outgoing news posts are kept.
- #mailuser=
- #mailuser=none
- #
- # I keep my outgoing posts in a mail user ID of 'postlog'.
- mailuser=postlog
- #
- # The name of the pseudo user that will receive a copy of all outgoing mail.
- # Leave blank or set to none for no local copy.
- #
- # The default for this item is "outmail" if no mailuser line is found
- # in snews.rc
- #
- # If you leave this item blank, or set it to the word 'none' no copies
- # of outgoing mail items are kept.
- #maillog=
- #maillog=none
- maillog=
- #
- # I keep my outgoing posts in a mail user ID of 'outmail'.
- maillog=outmail
- #
- # The name of the pseudo user that will receive news extracts.
- # If not specified, this item defaults to 'snewsex'
- #
- extracts=extracts
- #
- # Post
- # The option to add news generated locally to your newsbase without
- # waiting for them to sent back from demon. If there is no 'post='
- # item in this file, no local copy is generated.
- #
- # Local copies when enabled also update the history files to prevent the
- # article being fetched from Demon at a later time.
- #
- # This option can be extended by adding /read to indicate that all
- # locally posted articles are to be marked as read immediately on posting
- #
- # i.e. post=local - post articles locally but mark them unread.
- # post=local/read - post articles locally and mark as read.
- #
- #post=local/read
- #post=local
- post=
- #
- # newsid
- # The name of the pseudo user to whom mail is sent for posting in the
- # newsgroups. This item defaults to mail2news and is only provided for
- # insurance against possible future changes.
- #
- newsid=mail2news
- #
- # exitconfirm
- # If this item is set to 1, Snews will prompt before exiting to DOS.
- #
- # e.g.
- # exitconfirm=1 - to prompt
- # exitconfirm=0 - to not prompt (default if not set otherwise)
- #
- # expert mode
- # If this item is set to 1, it changes the behaviour of Snews as follows:
- # No confirmation prompts are asked to queries for marking articles
- # as read or unread.
- # Outgoing articles and Mail are presented to the editor complete with
- # header and footer information. Anything can be edited before sending.
- #
- # If expert is ommitted from this file, or set to 0, behaviour is similar
- # to previous versions of Snews.
- #
- # expert=1 - to use expert mode
- # expert=0 - to use standard mode (default if not set)
- #
- expert=0
- #
- # aliasfile
- #
- # The fully qualified file name of an alias file in PCElm format.
- # If present, mail names are checked against the contents of the
- # first item on each line of this file. If a match is found the
- # remainder of the line is substituted. Aliases are not expanded
- # recursively. At the present time, only names entered to a specific
- # prompt in Snews are checked for aliases. Names entered in the editor
- # are not checked on exit.
- #
- #aliasfile=c:\nos\pcelm\alias
- aliasfile=
- #
- #
- # tab
- #
- # The action to be taken by the TAB key when reading news.
- # If present and set to off, the action of the tab key will be
- # that of snews 1.21 and older. If not present, or set to on TAB
- # will have the function of allowing new articles to be read by
- # using only the TAB key.
- #
- tab=on
- #
- # headers
- #
- # The default value to determine if when quoting an article, header
- # lines from the quoted article are included when a quoted article is
- # included. To include the header lines in quoted articles, this item
- # should be set to on.
- #
- # headers=on
- #
- # This item defaults to not quoting headers if it is not present in
- # this file.
- #
- headers=off
- #
- # matchlength
- #
- # This item determines how the subject threading is handled. By default
- # if a subject is less that 15 characters, the full subject lines must
- # match for both articles to be considered to be the same thread.
- # If the subjects are both longer that 15 characters, then the match
- # is only performed for the shorter of the two subjects.
- #
- # matchlength allows this default of 15 to be changed.
- #
- # Special cases:
- # 128 - both subjects must be an exact match.
- # -1 - Subjects will never match.
- #
- matchlength=15
- #
- # footers
- # The value to specify what action to take with the "-- " separator.
- # If set to on (the default) the signature will be separated from
- # the body of a message with the "-- " line. Also quoted article
- # will not include signatures from the original if they are marked
- # with a separator.
- #
- footers=on
- #
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