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1.1     ! root        1: .TH NEWSOUTPUT 8 "University of Illinois"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: newsoutput, newsinput - notes-news gateway programs
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B newsoutput
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B "-a"
        !             8: or 
        !             9: .BI "-s" sysname
        !            10: or
        !            11: .B "-c"
        !            12: .I "filename"
        !            13: ] [
        !            14: .B "-b"
        !            15: ] [
        !            16: .B "-v"
        !            17: ] [
        !            18: .B "-o"
        !            19: .I date-spec
        !            20: ] [
        !            21: .B "-f"
        !            22: file
        !            23: ]
        !            24: topic [ ... ]
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: .B newsinput
        !            27: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            28: .I Newsoutput
        !            29: and
        !            30: .I newsinput
        !            31: manage the transfer of articles between a notesfile system
        !            32: and a news system.
        !            33: 
        !            34: .I Newsoutput
        !            35: gateways notesfile-generated articles to the news system.
        !            36: Several options determine the types of articles to be
        !            37: transfered.
        !            38: The
        !            39: .B -a
        !            40: option specifies that any notesfile-generated article that
        !            41: has not been in the news system before is to be sent to 
        !            42: news.
        !            43: The
        !            44: .BI "-s" "sysname"
        !            45: option specifies that only articles from 
        !            46: .I sysname
        !            47: are to be sent to the news system.
        !            48: The
        !            49: .B "-c"
        !            50: option directs
        !            51: .I newsoutput
        !            52: to gateway articles written at any of the systems whose
        !            53: names appear in the file
        !            54: .IB filename "."
        !            55: If none of these options is specified, only locally
        !            56: generated articles are sent to the news.
        !            57: In normal operation, the
        !            58: .B -a
        !            59: or
        !            60: .B -c
        !            61: options are most typically used;
        !            62: .B -s
        !            63: is included for backwards compatibility.
        !            64: .PP
        !            65: The 
        !            66: .B -b
        !            67: option specifies that newsoutput should generate articles
        !            68: which will be parsed correctly by previous versions of the
        !            69: notesfile/news gateway code.
        !            70: Files containing lists of notesfiles can 
        !            71: be specified through the 
        !            72: .B -f
        !            73: option.
        !            74: Use
        !            75: .B -v
        !            76: for a more verbose output than normal;
        !            77: default operation produces a summary of notes and responses
        !            78: transmitted for each notesfile with traffic.
        !            79: .PP
        !            80: The
        !            81: .B -o
        !            82: option specifies that only articles that arrived on the 
        !            83: local system after
        !            84: .I date-spec
        !            85: are to be considered for transmittal to news.
        !            86: The timestamp file is updated after the execution of 
        !            87: .I newsoutput
        !            88: whether the 
        !            89: .B -o
        !            90: option is specified.
        !            91: .PP
        !            92: The actual method of insertion into the news system is determined
        !            93: in the ``net.how'' file by the transmission method for the
        !            94: pseudo-site ``Usenet''.
        !            95: Mappings between notesfiles and newsgroups are specified in the
        !            96: file ``/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/newsgroups''.
        !            97: .PP
        !            98: The
        !            99: .I newsinput
        !           100: program accepts articles from the news system,
        !           101: parses headers,
        !           102: maps newsgroups to appropriate notesfiles,
        !           103: and inserts the articles.
        !           104: News' control messages are intercepted and placed in a 
        !           105: maintainence notesfile for review by the system manager.
        !           106: When a news article maps to a non-existent notesfile,
        !           107: the notesfile is automatically created.
        !           108: .PP
        !           109: Typically
        !           110: .I newsoutput
        !           111: is run by cron(8) at intervals ranging from hourly to daily.
        !           112: Newsinput is invoked automatically by the news system when
        !           113: it propogates articles. 
        !           114: See appendix B of 
        !           115: .ul
        !           116: The Notesfile Reference Manual
        !           117: for a more detailed discussion on configuring and installing
        !           118: a notesfile-news gateway.
        !           119: .PP
        !           120: The notesfile-news mapping function used the file
        !           121: /usr/spool/notes/.utilities to map names between the two systems.
        !           122: The mapping functions allow simple one-for-one name mapping,
        !           123: one-to-many mapping,
        !           124: and 
        !           125: mapping ``basenotes'' and responses from one notesfile to 
        !           126: separate newsgroups.
        !           127: See appendix B of
        !           128: .ul
        !           129: The Notesfile Reference Manual
        !           130: for more information on how this works.
        !           131: .SH BUGS
        !           132: News articles which can definitely be marked as responses
        !           133: because they have a ``References'' line but whose parents
        !           134: can't be found by article-ID or by guessing from the title
        !           135: are not counted as orphans.
        !           136: This is due to problems arising from mapping of article-ID's
        !           137: to allow a notesfile and news system to coexist on the
        !           138: same host.
        !           139: .PP
        !           140: newsinput doesn't correctly do one-to-many mapping of
        !           141: newsgroups to notesfiles.  Newsoutput does do
        !           142: one-to-many mapping of notesfiles to newsgroups.
        !           143: .PP
        !           144: Since the author's system may not have seen the article yet 
        !           145: (if he wrote it via nfmail for example), the ``Path:'' header
        !           146: line may not point anywhere near the author.
        !           147: .PP
        !           148: The ``Path'' line generated contains full-domain information
        !           149: and doesn't necessarily point at the author.  News systems
        !           150: 2.10.2 and earlier still assume that the last component of
        !           151: this header line is an author name and treat it specially.
        !           152: .SH FILES
        !           153: .PD 0
        !           154: .TP 40
        !           155: /usr/spool/notes/.utilities
        !           156: where these programs live.
        !           157: .TP 40
        !           158: /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/newsgroups
        !           159: mapping between notesfiles and newsgroups
        !           160: .TP 40
        !           161: /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how
        !           162: Pseudo-site ``Usenet'' specifies how to insert news
        !           163: articles.
        !           164: .PD
        !           165: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           166: news(1),
        !           167: notes(1),
        !           168: nfxmit(8),
        !           169: uucp(1),
        !           170: .br
        !           171: .ul
        !           172: The Notesfile Reference Manual
        !           173: .SH AUTHORS
        !           174: .nf
        !           175: Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%[email protected])
        !           176: Department of Computer Science
        !           177: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        !           178: Urbana, IL
        !           179: .sp
        !           180: Rob Kolstad ([email protected])
        !           181: CONVEX Computer Corporation
        !           182: Richardson, TX
        !           183: .fi

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