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bsnews - Bootstrap News
copyright 1989 Ronald Florence
MT C-Shell version by David Beckemeyer
Recently a bsnews program was posted to the net for Unix(R) systems.
It was described as follows:
"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 original Bootstrap News was a collection of programs and shell
scripts which receive news from a feeder site and turn it into mail.
From this idea, I made this version of Bootstrap News for MT C-Shell.
It is similar in concept and purpose to the original, but it is vastly
different in implementation. For this reason, the orginal makefile
and readme files do not apply to the MT C-Shell version and so they
aren't included here. All files contain the original author's copyright
notices. It was his idea, he should get the credit.
The MT C-Shell Bootstrap News includes the following programs:
rnews - run by the remote host (feeder) site via
'uux - yoursys!rnews' to read single or
batched articles. Compressed batches
are not supported yet.
pn - a simple news poster.
Installing Bootstap News
Most people won't have to re-compile the programs, but the source
is provided just in case. You will need Mark Williams C to
recompile the code, or you will have to change the code for
a different compiler.
There is an install.sh shell script for automatically installing
the Bootstrap News programs and data files. Examine this file
to see if it looks OK for your installatin. Make any necessary
changes and type '.\install' to install bootstrap news.
The install script does the following. It creates the directories
\usr\lib\news and \usr\spool\news and puts the following files there:
\usr\lib\news\sys - The sys file contains just one word,
the name of the system that feeds you news.
It must be the first line of the file and
there can be no trailing white space.
\usr\lib\news\org - The name of the organization corresponding
to your site. It is used by pn.prg to
when posting news articles.
\usr\lib\news\seq - Contains the curent sequence number in
ASCII. Probably start at 1. The pn.prg
increments this value each time you
post an article.
The install script also creates three user accounts on your system:
"netnews", "news", and "usenet". The netnews account is for reading
news articles. All news artices are sent as mail to this account.
The other two accounts are used for news administration.
Reading News
To read news, you log in as "netnews" and just type mail.
Posting News Articles
To post an article to the net, use the pn program. Just type 'pn'.
The program will ask you for the newsgroups and the subject and then
it will invoke the text editor \usr\bin\me.prg to allow you to create
the text of the article. You will have to recompile the program to use
a different editor.
Re-Compiling The Programs
Look over the definitions in the makefile and in rnews.c and pn.c
and change as nesessary. Type 'make install' to rebuild the
programs if required.
David Beckemeyer
Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
david@bdt.UUCP
{ucbvax,uunet}!unisoft!bdt!david
What follows is the orginal notice from the original Bootstrap News
readme file:
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
...{hsi!aati,rayssd}!mlfarm!ron