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1.1 ! root 1: From cbosg!harpo!npois!eiss!ladm Fri Mar 19 16:20:27 1982 ! 2: Subject: newsinfo.shell ! 3: Newsgroups: net.sources ! 4: ! 5: echo cmd-sum ! 6: cat >cmd-sum <<E!O!F! ! 7: The following commands are part of netnews: ! 8: ! 9: checknews - to see if there is new news ! 10: readnews - to actually read the news ! 11: postnews - simple interface to submit a news article ! 12: inews - the real news submission command ! 13: newsinfo - tells up-to-date information about USENET ! 14: ! 15: Typical usage: ! 16: checknews -y (this is in /etc/profile) ! 17: ! 18: readnews ( to read all news ) ! 19: readnews -n newsgroup (selectively select a newsgroup to read) ! 20: readnews -l (list titles only) ! 21: ! 22: You probably want to specify options in your $HOME/.newsrc file. ! 23: Several .newsrc files follow: ! 24: ! 25: options -h -n all !net.all !fa.all (subscribe to LOCAL and btl newsgroups). ! 26: (The -h provides short headers) ! 27: ! 28: options -n all !fa.all !net.rec.all !net.jokes.all ! 29: E!O!F! ! 30: ! 31: echo contacts ! 32: cat >contacts <<E!O!F! ! 33: Machine Contacts: ! 34: direct: ! 35: insert your own info here ! 36: ! 37: indirect: ! 38: ! 39: other interesting but more remote machines: ! 40: mhtsa : ! 41: eagle : jal (Jeff Langer) ! 42: research: ! 43: alice : ! 44: ! 45: Major centers: ! 46: ihnss, houxi, harpo, mhuxj, mhtsa (BTL) ! 47: ucbvax, decvax, duke ! 48: E!O!F! ! 49: ! 50: echo current_info ! 51: cat >current_info <<E!O!F! ! 52: USENET System Information ! 53: ------------------------- ! 54: ! 55: Introduction. USENET is an international network of UNIX sites, ! 56: with hookups into the ARPA network, too. It is basically a fancy ! 57: electronic Bulletin Board system. Numerous BTL machines are connected ! 58: at HO, IH, MH, with a few elsewhere, too. ! 59: In addition, there are major sites at universities: ! 60: UC Berkeley, Duke, U Waterloo, and so on ... ! 61: and at industry nationwide: ! 62: DEC, Tektronics, Microsoft, Intel, etc. ! 63: ! 64: There are numerous bulletin board categories, set up in a hierarchy. ! 65: The first "node" in a category name indicates the breadth of distribution, ! 66: later nodes indicate content. Read the newsgroup items for full lists. ! 67: ! 68: Newsgroup naming conventions: ! 69: ! 70: NO prefix= LOCAL ONLY ! 71: btl. = Bell Labs ! 72: net. = USENET wide categories ! 73: fa. = from ARPA-Net (no return feed, except via mail) ! 74: ____.all= everything in category "____". ! 75: ! 76: ! 77: The netnews newsgroups of most interest are: ! 78: ! 79: general : local general information ! 80: ! 81: btl.all : BTL Everything. ! 82: ! 83: net.general : general net-wide announcements ! 84: net.bugs.v7 : reports of bugs and/or solutions to UNIX V7 ! 85: net.news.b : news about our version of netnews ! 86: E!O!F! ! 87: ! 88: echo fa.groups ! 89: cat >fa.groups <<E!O!F! ! 90: FA groups are "From the Arpanet" and are mostly copies of mailing lists ! 91: or "digests" distributed on that network. (A digest is a collection of mail ! 92: put together by an editor and sent out every so often. It is much like a ! 93: newsletter.) ! 94: A special convention applies to submissions to FA newsgroups. ! 95: You should not post directly to the newsgroup, since this will be ! 96: seen by people on USENET but not by the people on the arpanet who get the list ! 97: directly mailed to them. Instead, send mail to the name of the group on site ! 98: For example, to post an article to fa.human-nets, you might mail to ! 99: ...!ucbvax!human-nets (where ... is the path from HERE to ucbvax). ! 100: FA groups and their corresponding mailing lists can reach a very large ! 101: user community, including USENET sites on UUCP, Berknet, BLN, and the ! 102: ARPANET, as well as sites on the ARPANET which are not on USENET, ! 103: who get the news via direct electronic mailing. ! 104: ! 105: Some digests are turned off locally; others are fed into "net" groups; ! 106: still others are available in printed form only. These conditions are ! 107: noted below. ! 108: ! 109: NEWSGROUP | Description last update 3/19/82 ! 110: ============================================================================== ! 111: fa.arms-d | Discussion and info on strategic weapons. ! 112: fa.arpa-bboard | Announcements that are posted to all arpanet bboards ! 113: | are also fed into this newsgroup. ! 114: fa.digest-p | People who deal with digests. Mostly the people who ! 115: | moderate them. ! 116: fa.editor-p | Interest group in computer editors, both text and program. ! 117: fa.energy | Topics relating to alternate energy production, ! 118: | conservation, etc. ! 119: fa.human-nets | A daily moderated digest with discussions of computer-aided ! 120: | human-to-human communications. Probably the most widely read ! 121: | ARPANET publication. AVAILABLE PRINTED ONLY. ! 122: fa.info-cpm | CP/M and other operating systems for micro computers. ! 123: fa.info-micro | Microprocessor and microcomputer discussions. ! 124: fa.info-terms | Opinions/queries about what's a good/bad computer terminal. ! 125: fa.info-vax | VAX interest group. Seems to be mostly VMS issues, but some ! 126: | hardware discussions too. ! 127: fa.poli-sci | Political Science discussions digest. TURNED OFF. ! 128: fa.sf-lovers | Science Fiction book/movie reviews, etc. PRINTED ONLY. ! 129: fa.space | Digest containing comments on the space program and outer ! 130: | space in general. This is fed to net.space, ALSO PRINTED. ! 131: fa.tcp-ip | Digest relating to the TCP and IP network protocols. ! 132: | TURNED OFF. ! 133: fa.telecom | Technical topics relating to telecommunications, especially ! 134: | the telephone system. A digest recently spun off from ! 135: | fa.human-nets. PRINTED ONLY. ! 136: fa.teletext | Teletext discusses all aspects of ``esoteric'' data systems. ! 137: | This includes teletext, viewdata, closed-captioning, and ! 138: | digicasting. ! 139: fa.unix-cpm | CPM/UNIX discussions. ! 140: fa.works | Interest group on personal workstations (e.g. Apollo, Perq, ! 141: | Xerox Star, etc). ! 142: ============================================================================== ! 143: E!O!F! ! 144: ! 145: echo help ! 146: cat >help <<E!O!F! ! 147: ! 148: Command Meaning ! 149: ! 150: y Yes. Prints current article and goes on to next. ! 151: n No. Goes on to next article without printing current one. ! 152: q Quit. Update .newsrc if -l or -x not used. ! 153: c Cancel article. ! 154: r Reply. Reply to article's author via mail. ! 155: f [title] Submit a follow up article. ! 156: N [newsgroup] Go to next newsgroup or named newsgroup. ! 157: s [file] Save. Article is appended to file (default, Articles). ! 158: # Report last article no. in newsgroup. ! 159: e Erase. Forget that an article was read. ! 160: h Print verbose header. ! 161: ! Shell escape. ! 162: number Go to number. ! 163: +[n] Skip n articles. ! 164: - Go back to last article. ! 165: x Exit. Don't update .newsrc. ! 166: X system Send article to system. ! 167: ! 168: c, f, r, e, h, and s can be followed by -'s to refer to the previous article ! 169: ! 170: E!O!F! ! 171: ! 172: echo infoinstall.sh ! 173: cat >infoinstall.sh <<E!O!F! ! 174: if test "$#" != 2 ! 175: then ! 176: echo "usage: $0 libdir bindir" ! 177: exit 1 ! 178: fi ! 179: LIBDIR=$1 ! 180: BINDIR=$2 ! 181: ! 182: : create directory for newsinfo command ! 183: if test ! -d $LIBDIR/INFO ! 184: then ! 185: mkdir $LIBDIR/INFO ! 186: chmod 775 $LIBDIR/INFO ! 187: fi ! 188: ! 189: : load INFO directory ! 190: cp cmd-sum contacts current_info help netmap *.groups $LIBDIR/INFO ! 191: chmod 664 $LIBDIR/INFO/* ! 192: ! 193: : move the newsinfo command to bin ! 194: sed "s;/usr/local/netnews;$LIBDIR;g" <newsinfo >$BINDIR/newsinfo ! 195: chmod 755 $BINDIR/newsinfo ! 196: E!O!F! ! 197: ! 198: echo local.groups ! 199: cat >local.groups<<E!O!F! ! 200: Local newsgroups are those that do not begin with "net.", "btl.", or ! 201: "fa.". They are not distributed to any other system. ! 202: ! 203: NEWSGROUP | Description last update: 3/19/82 ! 204: ========================================================================== ! 205: general | Local news of general interest. E.g., to announce a ! 206: | newsgroup, or a party, or a new command, etc. ! 207: followup | follow-up articles to those originally posted in general ! 208: ========================================================================== ! 209: E!O!F! ! 210: ! 211: echo net.groups ! 212: cat >net.groups <<E!O!F! ! 213: Net.all newsgroups are available to all people on the entire network ! 214: who read netnews. This does not mean they go to every machine, since some ! 215: machines restrict the volume of news that comes in. It is assumed that users ! 216: of such restricted machines can read news on another machine on which they ! 217: have a login. Newsgroups reach all of USENET (including USENET sites on the ! 218: ARPANET) but do not reach any sites that are not on USENET. That is, USENET ! 219: is defined as all sites that net.all reaches. ! 220: ! 221: NEWSGROUP | Description last update: 3/19/82 ! 222: =========================================================================== ! 223: net.general | General information. ! 224: net.followup | follow-up articles to those posted in net.general ! 225: net.applic | Info - applicative language and related architecture. ! 226: net.auto | General Information for automobile owners. ! 227: net.auto.vw | Subgroup net.auto - for owners of Volkswagon Rabbits. ! 228: net.aviation | General information about aviation. ! 229: net.bugs | Genreral information about bug reports and fixes. ! 230: net.bugs.2bsd | Subgroup net.bugs - 2nd Berkley Software distribution ! 231: net.bugs.4bsd | Subgroup net.bugs - 4th Berkley software distribution ! 232: net.bugs.v7 | Subgroup net.bugs - Version 7 or UNIX System III ! 233: net.columbia | General information on space shuttle and space programs ! 234: net.cooks | Interest group - food, cooking, cookbooks, and recipes. ! 235: net.cse | Computer Science Education ! 236: net.cycle | General information about motorcycles. ! 237: net.dcom | data communication - modems,multiplexers,port selectors etc. ! 238: net.eunice | Info on sites using SRI Eunice - simulates UNIX on VMS ! 239: net.games | Information and discussion on computer games. ! 240: net.games.rog | (net.games.rogue) Subgroup net.games - rogue ! 241: net.games.frp | Fantasy Role Playing games ! 242: net.games.triv | (net.games.trivia) Trivia contests and results. ! 243: net.ham-radio | Topics of interest to amateur radio operators. ! 244: net.jokes | The latest "good" joke you've heard? ! 245: net.lan | Local area network interest group. ! 246: net.lsi | Large Scale Integrated Circuit discussions. ! 247: net.math | mathematical discussions (eg. what is lim x->0 log(x)-log(x)) ! 248: net.micro | micro-computers, see also fa.info-micro. ! 249: net.misc | Discussions not permanent enough for a newsgroup. ! 250: net.movies | Movie reviews by members of USENET. ! 251: net.music | Computer generated music. ! 252: net.news | Discussion of netnews itself, and its policies ! 253: net.news.b | Subgroup net.news - specific to bnews. ! 254: net.news.direc | (net.news.directory) all or part of the USENET directory ! 255: net.news.group | for discussions about proposed new newsgroups. ! 256: net.news.map | for discussions about maps of newsites. ! 257: net.news.newsi | (net.news.newsite) to announce a new site. ! 258: net.oa | Office Automation/Word Processing interest group. ! 259: net.periphs | Queries and discussions about particular peripherals. ! 260: net.rec | Gereral info on recreational (participation) sports. ! 261: net.rec.boat | boating (sail and motor???) ! 262: net.rec.bridge | contract bridge. ! 263: net.rec.scuba | scuba diving. ! 264: net.rec.ski | skiing. ! 265: net.rec.skydiv | (net.rec.skydive) sky diving ! 266: net.records | Info and opinions about records (and tapes ?). ! 267: net.rumor | For posting of rumors. ! 268: net.sf-lovers | Science Fiction Lovers - undigested from fa.sf-lovers ! 269: net.sources | For large volume material, source program distribution ! 270: net.space | Space programs and research - undigested from fa.space ! 271: net.sport | General info about spectator sports. ! 272: net.sport.base | (net.sport.baseball) Subgroup of net.sport - for baseball. ! 273: net.sport.foot | (net.sport.football) Subgroup of net.sport - for football. ! 274: net.sport.hock | (net.sport.hockey) Subgroup of net.sport - for hockey. ! 275: net.taxes | Tax advice and queries. ! 276: net.test | Test messages are posted here. ! 277: net.travel | Requests, suggestions, and opinions about traveling ! 278: net.ucds | Circuit drawing system. ! 279: net.unix-wiza | (net.unix-wizards) Discussion of UNIX - gatewayed to ARPANET ! 280: net.wines | Info and reccomendations about wines and alcoholic beverages ! 281: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 282: E!O!F! ! 283: ! 284: echo netmap ! 285: cat >netmap <<E!O!F! ! 286: Wait for a new map! ! 287: E!O!F! ! 288: ! 289: echo newsinfo ! 290: cat >newsinfo <<E!O!F! ! 291: trap 'continue' 2 ! 292: INFO=/usr/local/netnews/INFO ! 293: cd $INFO ! 294: while true ! 295: do ! 296: if expr "$TERM" : hp >/dev/null ! 297: then ! 298: echo "\033U\033J\c" # next page and clear ! 299: fi ! 300: echo "\nChoose from the following: ! 301: i) brief Introduction ! 302: g [list]) nearly complete list of news Groups. list=local, btl, net, or fa ! 303: c) network Contacts (machines and people) ! 304: s) command Summary ! 305: h) the Help list from readnews ! 306: m) a graphic Map of the network ! 307: *) anything else, exit. ! 308: ?\c" ! 309: read sel grp ! 310: case "$sel" in ! 311: i) cat current_info;; ! 312: g) cat ${grp:-*}.groups;; ! 313: c) cat contacts;; ! 314: s) cat cmd-sum;; ! 315: h) cat help;; ! 316: m) cat netmap;; ! 317: *) echo "These files can be found in $INFO." ; exit ;; ! 318: esac ! 319: echo "\n\nhit return." ; read sel ! 320: done ! 321: E!O!F! ! 322:
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