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suck-2.3b
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Thu Aug 10 05:50:18 1995
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 15:43:34 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: "Robert A. Yetman" <boby@pixi.com>
Subject: suck-2.3b
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Followup-to: comp.os.linux.networking
Keywords: suck nntp news
This is to announce the release of suck-2.3B
THIS VERSION IS A BETA VERSION
The reason I call it Beta is because there was a basic rewrite of all
the code, and many subroutines were added in, rewritten etc. It works
great on my system, but there may still be some hidden bugs that I
couldn't find. If so, let me know.
MAJOR CHANGES
1. Added batch options to suck to allow the output of suck
to be directly useable by innxmit or rnews.
2. Added batch and filter options to rpost so that it can
directly use /usr/spool/news/out.going/systemname.
LOCATION
========
Site1 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/Linux/system/Mail/news
File1 = suck-2.3B.tar.gz
Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2 = /pub/linux/sources/sbin
File2 = suck-2.3B.tar.gz
INTRODUCTION
============
This package contains the following software for copying news from an
NNTP server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to
an NNTP server.
suck Pull a small newsfeed from an NNTP server, avoiding the
NEWNEWS command.
lpost Gives one article fetched by suck to the local server.
rpost Posts article(s) to an NNTP server (like inews).
get.news a script to tie all this together.
put.news a script called by rpost (see below)
NOTE:
Suck will not work with obsolete NNTP servers that can't handle
the xhdr command. inn-1.4sec has its own NNTP server that can handle xhdr,
cnews.CR-G has no own NNTP server so it depends on which NNTP server you
connect to cnews. To get debugging output in suck.debug you can
edit the Makefile and add -DDEBUG1 -DDEBUG2 to OPTS before you compile
suck again.
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