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StarterPak/!Newsbase/Docs/ka9q
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Recent acquisitions » Acorn ADFS disks » adfs_AcornUser_199508.adf » !Internet |
| Filename: | StarterPak/!Newsbase/Docs/ka9q |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0675 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
These are the current programs used to interface to ka9q. addgroup [-old] -n <groupname> takes one parameter, to add the given groupname to the primary newsfeed. (interpreted as the largest xxxGroup file in !TCPIPUser) delgroup [-old] -n <groupname> takes one parameter, to remove all matching groups from all newsfeeds. For both addgroup and delgroup, the -old parameter makes them produce a xxxGroup file suited for older versions of !TCPIP (2.01 and earlier), with many groups per line. Without the -old switch, new-style xxxGroup files are produced (one group per line). detect returns 0 if the transport is detected on the system, otherwise nonzero. mkgroups builds a list of groupname patterns from !TCPIP xxxGroup files, and creates a file cobtaining one entry per line, in !NewsDir.newsbase.config.ka9q.groups postfetch called when a news debatch finishes - trims the xxxHist files and updates the Newsbase newgroups files. sendmail -f <file> -u <user> [-nolocal] Queues outgoing mail. Local mail is sent back to Newsbase (ie mail without a destination hostname, or with the local hostname) - to disable this, add the "-nolocal" switch. sendnews -f <file> -u <user> Queues outgoing news sethost places hostname into <NewsBase$ReturnInfo> setremote places remote hostname into <NewsBase$ReturnInfo> (returns smtp gateway for !TCPIP). showqueue lists outgoing mail & news queues startup transport-layer startup file. Defines system vars & anything else needed. status returns current transport status (ie, online/offline). setup no defined action or parameters - may be a general routine for setup of transport.
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