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                      2:      The program "nntpxmit" is an active trnamission client
                      3: (see the comment in nntpxmit.c for a description of the
                      4: difference between active and passive clients) written by Erik Fair
                      5: <[email protected], ...!ucbvax!fair>.
                      6: 
                      7:      nntpxmit requires support from the 2.10.3 news source.
                      8: Because of this, it must be compiled in the "src" directory of
                      9: the 2.10.3 distribution.  You should:
                     10: 
                     11:      1. Move the *.c and *.h files to 2.10.3/src
                     12: 
                     13:      2. Move ../common/response_codes.h into 2.10.3/src
                     14: 
                     15:      3. Add the lines in the Makefile in this directory to the
                     16:        2.10.3/src Makefile.
                     17: 
                     18:      4. Then do "make nntpxmit".
                     19: 
                     20:      Having compiled nntpxmit like that, you need to set your news
                     21: system up to use it.  Nntpxmit takes as arguments an internet host
                     22: to connect to, and a file containing a list of articles to send to
                     23: it.
                     24: 
                     25:      So, you might edit your news sys file to have an entry like:
                     26: 
                     27: #
                     28: # NASA Ames Research Center
                     29: #
                     30: nike:ucb,uc,mod,to.nike:F:/usr/spool/news/batch/nike
                     31: 
                     32: This will place names of news articles in the ucb, uc, and mod newsgroups
                     33: in the file "/usr/spool/news/batch/nike".
                     34: 
                     35: Periodically, you should have crontab run nntpxmit like so:
                     36: 
                     37: nntpxmit ames.arpa:/usr/spool/news/batch/nike
                     38: 
                     39: which sends each article via NNTP with the IHAVE command
                     40: to the host "ames.arpa".  Once finished, it removes the file
                     41: /usr/spool/news/batch/nike.
                     42: 
                     43:      nntpxmit has an option "-s" which *supresses* statistic
                     44: logging via syslog.  Additionally, the "-d" option is availible
                     45: for debugging.
                     46: 
                     47:      Please forward comments/suggestions for improvement/bugs to
                     48: Erik Fair, <[email protected]>.  [My thanks extended to Erik
                     49: for writing nntpxmit.  --Phil]

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