This is wCNews 1.0.30 - a very nice news system which didn't make
its way to the aminet. (I can't imagine why...)
Some notes from the author:
this stuff is a modified (and partialy enhanced =:->) version of
CNews, based on the port done by Frank 'Crash' Edwards
(uunet-version, *not* the buggy one from teh AmigaLigDisks).
It's primary intended to replace `Amiga UUCP Plus 1.02'
installations - it has been modified to comform to the `usual' Amiga
UUCP directory layout used by Matt Dillon and Ingo Feulner (that is:
controlfiles like `sys', `active' or `history' in `uulib:news/',
articles in `uunews:', binaries in the AmigaDOS' search path or
`uulib:news/bin') and is expected to be run on top of Matt Dillons
UUCP implementation (at least in terms of configuration). Thus,
former CNews users will have to reorganize a bit in order to make use
out of this ...
This version *requires* at least OS Version 36 and has been
tested only on V37.175 (official 2.0 ROMs) until now. I assume in
cases where this matters, I've checked for the OS version, but I
don't make any guarantees. But as most programs wouldn't run anyway
if you're working with ancient OS versions, I think this doesn't
matter - you have been warned =:->
In the following, I refer to `Amiga UUCP Plus 1.02' by Ingo
Feulner as `AUUCP', to `Amiga UUCP' by Matthew Dillon as `DUUCP'
(optionally followed by a version number, e. g. `DUUCP 1.16') and to
the CNews-Port done by Frank `crash' Edwards as `CNews'. I call this
stuff myself `wCNews' - no comments, please =:->
Differences CNews <-> wCNews
o Configuration
Above all, the environment (local, then global) is respected.
After environment lookup failed, a lookup in the DUUCP
configuration file (`S:UUConfig' or `UULIB:Config') is performed.
Finally, the old style CNews configuration stuff is executed, i.
e. lookup in `uulib:news/CNews.config'.
o NewsHostName
`uulib:news/whoami' still has highest priority. Next comes the
`hostname' environment variable, then DUUCP's `NodeName' is taken
(if `DomainPath' is set to `y[es]', `DomainName' will be appended
to the `NodeName' value). If all fails, your newsname is
`anonymous'.
o sys-File
You may specify _exactly_ one `%s' in the sy_cmd field, this will
be replaced by an absolute(!) path under which the current article
has been filed. Of course, `<%s' also works, this way you can
specify which program should get the article on its stdin (e. g.
for `site:grps/dist::lockserial someprg <%s' - a stupid example
but you should get the idea =:->) - if you don't specify any `%s',
in the example above, `lockserial' would get the article on stdin
(same behaviour as under CNews).
Specifying a sys-line like `s:n/d::dh0:etc/bin/news/format drive
vd0: name %s' now also works - before, at least my version
mis-interpreted `dh0' as the batchparms and got somewhat upset of
them.
Finally: `site/ex1,ex2,ex3:ng/dist:flgs:' now excludes not only
`ex1' but - as documented - also `ex2' and `ex3'.
o RFC stuff
You may set `RFCStrictness' to `0' to `2' to reject articles with
message-ids not conforming to RFC 822 and unqualified hostnames
(e. g. `<0851@host>' instead of `<0815@host.do.main>).
RFCStrictness 0 acts like original CNews
RFCStrictness 1 enables check for `@domain' and illegal chars
RFCStrictness 2 enables check for fully qualified domain as
required by RFC 1036 but often ignored.
You may set `MaxArticleAge' to a decimal value, specifying how old
an article may be. Articles with a `Date:' header specifying a
date older than `MaxArticleAge' days (or with dates more than one
day in future) will be rejected.
Both of the above features are inspired by recent UNOX-CNews
releases but implemented as more or less quick and dirty hacks; I
haven't had the time to adopt (parts of) the `CNews performance
release' from May '92 yet ...
o `expire' now checks wheter or not the remove() system call succeeds
and in case it fails with errno != ENOENT, the article's history
entry is copied into the new history; this hopefully reduces the
number of old files left in the news tree ...
Credits
I've incorporated source code and/or ideas from the following
poeple; thank you for making the source code widely available:
Henry Spencer & Geoff Collyer (UNOX CNews)
Frank 'crash' Edwards (Amiga port of CNews)
Ingo Feulner (AUUCP; newscontrol)
Walter Mildenberger (fixactive, sendbatches)
Matthew Dillon (configuration, locking and more)
(apologies if I forgot anyone =:-<)
Disclaimer
See per-file copyright notices; all my code (most commonly #define
WUSEL) is (c) 1991-1992 by Kai `wusel' Siering and may not be used
anywhere else without my prior written permission. You may not use it
for commercial purposes.
This is an alpha release for testing purposes, don't blame me if you
loose anything due to using this. I am not responsible for any
damages or losses caused by this software. Standard disclaimers apply
=:->
Bugreports, Suggestions
Please report any bugs and/or suggestions to
<wusel@hactar.hanse.de>.
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