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diff --git a/utils/inews/README b/utils/inews/README deleted file mode 100644 index 1ce496d6..00000000 --- a/utils/inews/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ - - 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. |