snapshot of project "lynx", label v2_6fm_970209

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALLATION b/INSTALLATION
index fb72777a..0f746567 100644
--- a/INSTALLATION
+++ b/INSTALLATION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ For a description of Lynx please read the README file.
 
         Lynx Installation guide.
 
-        Last Updated August 1996
+        Last Updated February 1997
 
 UNIX & VMS Step 1a. 
     Most of the variables that you are likely to change are in the
@@ -43,25 +43,19 @@ UNIX Step 1d.  (WAIS support is built into Lynx for VMS, skip to step 1e)
     in the library.  If everything goes well you should
     be able to make and have direct WAIS access.
 
-UNIX Step 1e.
+UNIX & VMS Step 1e.
     Adding NEWS support.
-    To enable news reading ability via Lynx, set the environment variable
-    NNTPSERVER so that it points to your site's NNTP server (see Step 5).
-
-    To enable news posting ability from Lynx, in userdefs.h (and optionally
-    in lynx.cfg) define INEWS to the full path and name of the inews program.
-    A "mini" inews has been included in the utils directory.  Note that INN
-    may require the -h switch following the path.
-
-VMS Step 1e.
-    Adding NEWS support.
-    To enable news reading ability via Lynx, set the environment variable
-    NNTPSERVER so that it points to your site's NNTP server (see Step 5).
-
-    To enable news posting ability from Lynx, in userdefs.h (and optionally
-    in lynx.cfg) define INEWS to the foreign command for invoking news via
-    your ANU-NEWS client (presumably, "NEWS").  The ANU-NEWS software is
-    available from ftp.cc.ukans.edu.
+    To set your site's NTTP server as the default host for news reading
+    and posting via Lynx, set the environment variable NNTPSERVER so that
+    it points to its Internet address (see Step 5).
+
+    For news posting ability to be enabled in Lynx, in userdefs.h (and
+    optionally in lynx.cfg) the NEWS_POSTING symbol must be defined to
+    TRUE.  Also define LYNX_SIG_FILE in usersdefs.h or lynx.cfg so that
+    it points to users' signature files for appending to posted messages.
+    For the Organization: header in news postings, Lynx checks for an
+    ORGANIZATION or NEWS_ORGANIZATION environment variable.  On Unix,
+    Lynx also checks for an /etc/organization file.
 
 UNIX Step 1f. (Sun systems)
     Sun resolv library.
@@ -251,7 +245,7 @@ UNIX and VMS Step 5.
     Lynx uses some environment variables to regulate it's behavior.
     
     The variable "NNTPSERVER" is used to specify the host which will
-    be used for news URLs.
+    be used as the default for news URLs.
     
 	UNIX
 		setenv NNTPSERVER "news.server.dom"
@@ -260,6 +254,10 @@ UNIX and VMS Step 5.
 		define/system NNTPSERVER "news.server.dom"
 
 
+    The environment variables "ORGANIZATION" or "NEWS_ORGANIZATION", if set,
+    will be used for the Organization: header in news postings.
+
+
     The environment variable "LYNX_CFG", if set, will override the default
     location and name of the global configuration file (lynx.cfg) that was
     defined via the constant "LYNX_CFG_FILE" in userdefs.h.  See userdefs.h
@@ -299,7 +297,11 @@ UNIX and VMS Step 5.
                 setenv ftp_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 setenv gopher_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 setenv news_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                setenv newspost_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                setenv newsreply_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 setenv snews_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                setenv snewspost_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                setenv snewsreply_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 setenv nntp_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 setenv wais_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 setenv finger_proxy "http://some.server.dom:port/"
@@ -311,7 +313,11 @@ UNIX and VMS Step 5.
                 define "ftp_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 define "gopher_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 define "news_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                define "newspost_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                define "newsreply_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 define "snews_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                define "snewspost_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
+                define "snewsreply_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 define "nntp_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 define "wais_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"
                 define "finger_proxy" "http://some.server.dom:port/"