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1.1     ! root        1: .TH NETNEWS 5
        !             2: .CT 1 inst_info
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: netnews \- usenet news articles, utility files
        !             5: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             6: .PP
        !             7: There are two formats of news articles:
        !             8: A and B.
        !             9: Format A is the only format that the older
        !            10: .IR netnews (A)
        !            11: understands.
        !            12: .I Readnews
        !            13: and
        !            14: .IR postnews (7)
        !            15: deal with both formats, but produce B
        !            16: by default.
        !            17: .PP
        !            18: Format A looks like this:
        !            19: .LP
        !            20: .BI A article-ID
        !            21: .br
        !            22: .I newsgroups
        !            23: .br
        !            24: .I path
        !            25: .br
        !            26: .I date
        !            27: .br
        !            28: .I title
        !            29: .br
        !            30: .I body of article
        !            31: .br
        !            32: .LP
        !            33: Format B
        !            34: contains two extra pieces of information:  receipt date and expiration
        !            35: date.
        !            36: A file in B format consists of a series of headers and then the body.
        !            37: A header
        !            38: is a line with a capital letter in the 1st column and
        !            39: a colon somewhere on the line.
        !            40: Unrecognized header fields are ignored.
        !            41: News is stored in whichever format it was created.
        !            42: The following fields are among those recognized:
        !            43: .IP
        !            44: .EX
        !            45: From:
        !            46: Newsgroups:
        !            47: Subject:
        !            48: Date:
        !            49: Date-Received:
        !            50: Expires:
        !            51: Reply-To:
        !            52: References: \fRID of article this is a follow-up to\fP
        !            53: Control: \fRText of a control message\fP
        !            54: .EE
        !            55: .LP
        !            56: Each line of the control file
        !            57: .F /usr/lib/news/sys
        !            58: file line has four fields, separated by colons:
        !            59: .LP
        !            60: .IB system-name : subscriptions : flags ":\fItransmission command\fP"
        !            61: .PP
        !            62: Only the
        !            63: .I system-name
        !            64: and
        !            65: .I subscriptions
        !            66: need to be present.
        !            67: .PP
        !            68: The
        !            69: .I system name
        !            70: is the name of the system being sent to.
        !            71: The
        !            72: .I subscriptions
        !            73: are the newsgroups it gets.
        !            74: The
        !            75: .L flags
        !            76: are a set of letters describing how the article should be transmitted.
        !            77: The default is
        !            78: .BR  B .
        !            79: Valid flags include
        !            80: .BR A ,
        !            81: .BR B ,
        !            82: .B N
        !            83: (use ihave/sendme protocol),
        !            84: .B U
        !            85: (use
        !            86: .L uux -c
        !            87: and the name of the stored article in a
        !            88: .L %s
        !            89: string).
        !            90: .LP
        !            91: The
        !            92: .I transmission command
        !            93: is executed by the shell with the article to be transmitted as the standard
        !            94: input.
        !            95: The default is
        !            96: .BI "uux \- \-z \-r " sysname !rnews .
        !            97: .LP
        !            98: Somewhere in the control 
        !            99: file, there must be a line for the host system.
        !           100: This line has no
        !           101: .IR flags
        !           102: or
        !           103: .I transmission commands.
        !           104: A 
        !           105: .L #
        !           106: as the first character in a line denotes a comment.
        !           107: .SH FILES
        !           108: .TF /usr/spool/netnews/*
        !           109: .TP
        !           110: .F /usr/lib/news/*
        !           111: .TP
        !           112: .F /usr/spool/news/*
        !           113: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           114: .IR postnews (7),
        !           115: .IR readnews (7)
        !           116: .br
        !           117: M. Horton,
        !           118: .I 
        !           119: Standard for the Interchange of USENET Messages,
        !           120: RFC850,
        !           121: DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office,
        !           122: Arlington VA,
        !           123: 1983

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