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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 21:07:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 21:07:28 -0400 |
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docs: Added UNIX V10 Manuals
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diff --git a/static/v10/man5/netnews.5 b/static/v10/man5/netnews.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5eedbac --- /dev/null +++ b/static/v10/man5/netnews.5 @@ -0,0 +1,123 @@ +.TH NETNEWS 5 +.CT 1 inst_info +.SH NAME +netnews \- usenet news articles, utility files +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +There are two formats of news articles: +A and B. +Format A is the only format that the older +.IR netnews (A) +understands. +.I Readnews +and +.IR postnews (7) +deal with both formats, but produce B +by default. +.PP +Format A looks like this: +.LP +.BI A article-ID +.br +.I newsgroups +.br +.I path +.br +.I date +.br +.I title +.br +.I body of article +.br +.LP +Format B +contains two extra pieces of information: receipt date and expiration +date. +A file in B format consists of a series of headers and then the body. +A header +is a line with a capital letter in the 1st column and +a colon somewhere on the line. +Unrecognized header fields are ignored. +News is stored in whichever format it was created. +The following fields are among those recognized: +.IP +.EX +From: +Newsgroups: +Subject: +Date: +Date-Received: +Expires: +Reply-To: +References: \fRID of article this is a follow-up to\fP +Control: \fRText of a control message\fP +.EE +.LP +Each line of the control file +.F /usr/lib/news/sys +file line has four fields, separated by colons: +.LP +.IB system-name : subscriptions : flags ":\fItransmission command\fP" +.PP +Only the +.I system-name +and +.I subscriptions +need to be present. +.PP +The +.I system name +is the name of the system being sent to. +The +.I subscriptions +are the newsgroups it gets. +The +.L flags +are a set of letters describing how the article should be transmitted. +The default is +.BR B . +Valid flags include +.BR A , +.BR B , +.B N +(use ihave/sendme protocol), +.B U +(use +.L uux -c +and the name of the stored article in a +.L %s +string). +.LP +The +.I transmission command +is executed by the shell with the article to be transmitted as the standard +input. +The default is +.BI "uux \- \-z \-r " sysname !rnews . +.LP +Somewhere in the control +file, there must be a line for the host system. +This line has no +.IR flags +or +.I transmission commands. +A +.L # +as the first character in a line denotes a comment. +.SH FILES +.TF /usr/spool/netnews/* +.TP +.F /usr/lib/news/* +.TP +.F /usr/spool/news/* +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR postnews (7), +.IR readnews (7) +.br +M. Horton, +.I +Standard for the Interchange of USENET Messages, +RFC850, +DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office, +Arlington VA, +1983 |
