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- Quick start guide for the gopher-nnrp gateway
-
- Requirements: perl, sys/socket.ph, an NNTP server that supports XHDR
- If the nntp server is not INN with overview files it will be slow for
- large newsgroups as the overview files speed up xhdr quite a bit.
-
- Notes: If running chroot(), be sure to have perl and sys/socket.ph
- in the gopher space. All the paths in the code assume you are running
- chroot.
-
- gonnrp has several options: (some of these options were ported over from
- gonntp and have not yet been tested it gonnrp. They are marked as
- such.)
-
- -g pattern retrieve all matching groups (as shipped gonnrp only
- matches with the beginning of the group name)
- Does not split up groups on '.'s like -G does.
-
- -h group retrieve subject headers from specified group
-
- -b group same as -h, but sets up next level to only display
- the body of the article (no headers) (untested in
- gonnrp)
-
- -s group keyword same a -h but display only subject lines
- which contain keyword. Currently limited to
- one word, should be easily fixed for more.
- To use this from gopher, you will have to call
- a shell script to run gonnrp rather than exec'ing
- gonnrp directly. I am still working on the
- search stuff, may change it later...
- (untested in gonnrp)
-
- -a group # [body] Internal option to retrieve article # from
- group. If body is specified then only the
- body of the article is displayed (no headers).
- The -a option should never be used in a .link
- file unless you never get rid of news articles.
-
- -l group Show last article from a group. Added by
- Bob Peterson (peterson@choctaw.csc.ti.com)
- (untested in gonnrp)
-
- -G pattern Same as -g, except prepare to thread groups
- and split groups on '.'s into sub-menus
-
- -G same as -G pattern but all newsgroups
-
- -T group Same as -h except thread articles.
-
- -X art# art# Show authors from thread. This option has two
- -X 0 start end forms. The first gives a list of articles in
- the thread. If the list is too long the
- second is used. It gives the first and last
- articles numbers in the thread. Any articles in
- the range that are not part of the thread are
- skipped.
-
- -t group Same as -h. I kept it to make converting from gonntp
- easyer. I might take it out in the future so do
- not use it.
-
- -f filepath Used to add a file to the begining of the menu.
- We use it for the clari copyright warning.
-
- Setting up the files:
-
- All paths are showen relative to the gopher's chrooted root.
-
- /bin/gonnrp
- /bin/build-newsgroups-db (run by maintainer only)
- /usr/lib/dotall (used by build-newsgroups-db)
- /usr/lib/newsgroups.dir (built by build-newsgroups-db)
- /usr/lib/newsgroups.pag (built by build-newsgroups-db)
-
- cd to gopher's /bin and type this:
-
- build-newsgroups-db /usr/local/news/newsgroups ../usr/lib/dotall
-
- It will setup your newsgroups dbm database that is used to display the
- descriptions in the newsgroups menus. The dotall file contains
- descriptions of parts of the newsgroups for the menus. For example:
-
- A dotall entry of:
-
- news.admin.all newsgroups for news admins
-
- The description 'newsgroups for news admins' would appear next to
- 'news.admin' in gopher. Note that this info can not be gotten from the
- newsgroups file because news.admin is not a newsgroup. [I know I picked
- an example that used to be a newsgroup and still is one, incorrectly, at
- some sites.]
-
- Sample link files
-
- Name=comp
- Type=1
- Path=exec:-g comp:/bin/gonnrp
- Host=+
- Port=+
-
- Name=Comp.Sys groups
- Type=1
- Path=exec:-g comp.sys:/bin/gonnrp
- Host=+
- Port=+
-
- Name=Gopher News
- Type=1
- Path=exec:-h alt.gopher:/bin/gonnrp
- Host=+
- Port=+
-
- Name=No headers alt.gopher
- Type=1
- Path=exec:-b alt.gopher:/bin/gonnrp
- Host=+
- Port=+
-
- Name=Search alt.gopher subjects for keyword
- Type=7
- Path=7/bin/gonnrp.sh
- Port=+
- Host=+
- #
- Name=clari - ClariNet UPI wireservice news
- Numb=5
- Type=1
- Path=exec:-f /usr/lib/clari-copyright -G clari:/bin/gonnrp
- Host=+
- Port=+
-
- (gonnrp.sh is a shell script which execs gonnrp -s alt.gopher $*, the
- exec type will try to exec "/bin/gonnrp keyword" rather than
- exec "/bin/gonnrp" "keyword")
-
- i.e.:
-
- #!/bin/sh
-
- /bin/gonnrp -s alt.gopher $*
-
- Comments & Suggestions to:
-
- c-adams@bgu.edu (Chad Adams)
-
-