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Date: Sun 10-May-1989 21:01:00 From: Unknown Subject: NNTP <-> Notes I wondered what would happen if I sent test notes to a real group :-) It occurred to me that others might want to try notes<->NNTP. (I didn't want to wait for a news feed.) Here are the steps to hook up U. of Illinois notes(1) to NNTP: To download notes, use (via {): nntpxfer, hacked to use newsinput instead of inews. The dbm routines have been deactivated. To upload to NNTP server, use newsoutput (via {) with net.how set up as: File nntpup contains: #! /bin/sh # simulate piped operation by nntpxmit tmp=nf_nntp$$ cat >$tmp nntpxmit -a garcon:$tmp rm $tmp This note should go out via this very method. I did some other hacks, such as deactivate load average checking in nntpxmit (access /dev/kmem). Also, in several places notes tries to write to a string constant; this is not allowed on NeXT w/ GNU C, and causes Seg Violations. Both notes and nntp package came from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu. I don't really have the time to provide a full cookbook of required modifications. Basically nntp->notes uses NEWNEWS command; a timestamp file is saved for the NEWNEWS command, to suppress old notes. (Our server still sends a few old notes anyway, I don't know why. Notes also filters out repeated notes.) notes->nntp uses IHAVE command, sends only notes server does not have. -------------------- Brad Carlson <carlson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu> or <b-carlson@uiuc.edu> University of Illinos at Urbana-Champaign NeXT guru for the Micro Resource Center >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
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