From: Steve Simmons <scs%itivax@relay.EU.net>
To: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 89 18:02:03 EDT
Subject: Inews Kit For NN

What Is This:

This is a mini-inews, suitable for building client-only versions of NN
that use NNTP for remote reading.  Some unknown (to me) person patched
it to be driven on NNs config.h file.  I have taken those changes, reversed
most of them and upgraded to NNTP release version 1.5.7.  This inews was
a co-operative venture when Stan released it, and it's kind of fitting
that it continues to be worked on by many hands.

If you have a full installation of news where you're installing NN,
you could care less about this.

Copyrights:

See individual files for authors.  I wrote conf.h and the
Makefile, and explicitly put them in the public domain.  Other parts
may have other copyrights, see the individual files.

Maintenance:

My less-than-humble opinion is that as Stan releases nntp patches, you will
be able to apply them to this code with no changes whatsoever.  As Stan
releases patches I will attempt to apply them and upgrade this source,
but no guarantees.

Why A Separate Release From NNTP:

NN and NNTP both use configuration files to let you fit the software
for your system.  Unfortunately, they used rather different methods.
This release specificly reconciles NNs 'config.h' and NNTPs '../common/conf.h'
by creating a local "conf.h" which maps 'config.h' to what NNTP inews needs.
Result -- once you build the config.h for NN you're 98% done with NNTP inews.

INSTALLATION:

Ideally you went to your nn source directory and created a subdir
named inews.  Then you unpacked this in that directory (I have already
done that, ++Kim).

All you should need to do is read conf.h, make any changes you feel
like, and then type 'make'.  If things work, type 'make install'.  For
more data on the inews itself, read the file README.  It's slightly
edited from the NNTP version to reflect its separation from the rest
of NNTP.

For more data on the inews itself, read the file README.  It's
slightly edited from the NNTP version to reflect its separation from
the rest of NNTP.

Steve Simmons
scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
December 21, 1989


--- Changes by Kim Storm, storm@texas.dk

I have edited what Steve sent me a bit further to simplify the
configuration and installation even more: It now uses nn's code to get
the hostname, so this is now got for free, and it gets the location of
the inews program from config.h as well.

Makefile:
	Added -I../conf to CFLAGS
	nn's hostname.o is used instead of uname.o to get the hostname.
	Installation uses nn's inst script (which will use the possible
	definition of INEWS or NEWS_LIB_DIRECTORY in config.h).

conf.h:
	#defines to set the proper hostname removed.
	#include "../config.h" line moved to start of file.
	Documents optional #define USG to get bcopy function.

clientlib.c, inews.c
	Added tweaks using a FOR_NN #define to include/exclude
	code to co-exist with nn's config.h file.

uname.c:
	Not used (so it is omitted from this distribution).