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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Non-Uucp Usenet
Message-ID: <206@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 14:41:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 14:41:30 1986
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
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In article <309@usc-oberon.UUCP> blarson@usc-oberon.UUCP (Bob Larson) asks:
>What is needed to set up a non-uucp news and mail link?  (Using a
>transport mechinism such as kermit.) 

Let's assume you want a Unix system running 2.10.2 news to feed your
OS-9 system, called foo-os9.  The easiest way is probably to have
your Unix host think it's shipping news as a batch.  You have news
create a file containing all the filenames of articles to be shipped
to your OS-9 system.  

With 2.10.2 news, distribution of articles are controlled by the "sys" file.
Add the following line to the file, with "groups" replaced by a
comma-separated list of groups or distributions ("net,mod" will send all
net-wide groups):

foo-os9:groups:F:/usr/spool/batch/foo-os9

What this does is to make a file named /usr/spool/batch/foo-os9
containing the filenames of all the articles to be sent to foo-os9.
Now all (!)  you have to do is to write a daemon that will wake up
every once in a while and transfer all those files to your system
using Kermit , where they are processed and inserted.  You could
either do this right (filling in Date-received headers and Path
headers and doing lots of checks), or as a shortcut, store the
articles on your OS-9 system unchanged (that is, don't add foo-os9 to
the path, just store each article as is).  To be able to post
articles, you could either do the complete job, meaning write your
own inews, or just ship the article text to your Unix system, and run
inews on it there.  If you take the simple approach your OS9 system
will look like part of your Unix system as far as news is concerned.

To do the full job, the "sys" line above suffices to get articles
from the Unix system to the OS-9 system.  Going the other way you
have to have an inews that can prepare proper rnews input, and be
able to ship articles to the Unix system via Kermit and have "rnews"
run on them there.

I hope this helps.
-- 
- Joe Buck <{ihnp4!pesnta,oliveb}!epimass!jbuck>
  Entropic Processing, Inc.
  Cupertino, California