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  1. Source Code CDROM.  March 94.  Walnut Creek CDROM.
  2. unix_c\usenet
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  4. Name           Size      Date    Description
  5. ============ ========  ========  =================
  6. 00README.TXT      115  02-24-94  
  7. ARCHLDNW.SH      1937  03-22-89   A shell script which archives old news by
  8.                                | printing it on the line printer for later
  9.                                | reference. Contributor: Charlie Perkins
  10.                                | <charliep@polaris.uucp>
  11. ARCNEWS.TAR     40960  07-15-89   Programs to automatically archive
  12.                                | comp.sources.* from the network. Contributor:
  13.                                | Tony Field <tony@ajfcal.uucp>
  14. BATCHMAL.TAR     8192  03-05-89   A program to convert batched news articles
  15.                                | to a format suitable for exchanging via
  16.                                | electronic mail. Contributor: Howard Chu
  17.                                | <hyc@umix.uucp>
  18. BNCVT.C          3873  03-22-89   Accepts uncompressed news batches i "bnproc"
  19.                                | format and writes them out in "unbatch"
  20.                                | format, which can be piped directly into
  21.                                | "rnews".  This is for news 2.10.3, may not
  22.                                | work for later versions. Contributor: Carl S.
  23.                                | Gutekunst <csg@pyramid.uucp>
  24. BSNEWS.TAR      24576  11-04-89   A collection of programs which allow a leaf
  25.                                | node to "bootstrap" the news software to take
  26.                                | a news feed without installing all the soft-
  27.                                | ware.  News articles are accumulated in a
  28.                                | mail-type spool file, where they can be read
  29.                                | with Mail, elm, etc. Contributor: Ronald
  30.                                | Florence <ron@mlfarm.uucp>
  31. CHECKNWS.SH      1234  03-22-89   A program which uses "rn" to check for news
  32.                                | in newsgroups and then lists the newsgroups
  33.                                | in multi-column format. Contributor: Don
  34.                                | Gworek <uggworek@sunybcs.uucp>
  35. CNEWS.TAR     1220608  07-01-89   A rewrite of the transport and expire
  36.                                | portions of the USENET software. It was
  37.                                | designed to be fast and flexible.
  38.                                | Contributor: Henry Spencer (henry@utzoo.uucp>
  39. DTMNBTCH.SH      8743  03-22-89   A shell script which cleans up TM files left
  40.                                | in the UUCP spool directory by the news
  41.                                | batching software. Contributor: Charlie
  42.                                | Perkins <charliep@polaris.uucp>
  43. DU.TAR          57344  10-31-90   Software to generate USENET disk usage and
  44.                                | readership reports. Includes an enhanced
  45.                                | version of "du".  Requires the statfs()
  46.                                | system call. Contributor: Chip Rosenthal
  47.                                | <chip@chinacat.unicom.com>
  48. FOL.TAR          8192  05-18-90   Invoked from readnews or vnews, lists the
  49.                                | followups to the current article.
  50.                                | Contributor: Daniel R. Levy
  51.                                | <levy@cbnewsc.att.com>
  52. GENMDLST.TAR    16384  03-05-89   An "awk" script for generating the list of
  53.                                | moderators from the information posted to the
  54.                                | news.lists newsgroup. Contributor: Robert
  55.                                | Adams <adams@calma.uucp>
  56. HEADERS.TAR     24576  03-23-89   A program to remove selected header lines
  57.                                | from files containing USENET articles. 
  58.                                | Provides a convenient way to scan through
  59.                                | lots of articles for useful information.
  60.                                | Contributor: Paul Dubois
  61.                                | <bin@primate.wisc.edu>
  62. KEEPNEWS.TAR    24576  03-05-89   A program to help users save news articles
  63.                                | of interest in a single collection area.
  64.                                | Contributor: Mark Swenson <mms@arizona.csnet>
  65. MVJUNK.SH        5002  03-22-89   A shell script to move articles which land
  66.                                | in the "junk" newsgroup back into their
  67.                                | proper newsgroups. Contributor: Jim Scardelis
  68.                                | <frodo@wcom.uucp>
  69. NARC.TAR        57344  03-05-89   Programs to save and catalog sources saved
  70.                                | from USENET news. Contributor: Geoff Leach
  71.                                | <geoff@laticorp.uucp>
  72. NESTOR.TAR      71680  04-14-92   NEws STatistics ORganizer.  A program to
  73.                                | summarize the copious logging information
  74.                                | from the NNTP news transport agent.
  75. NEWNWSRC.SH      1923  03-22-89   A shell script to generate a new ".newsrc"
  76.                                | file from an old one when moving between
  77.                                | systems. Contributor: Col. G. L. Sicherman
  78.                                | <colonel@ellie.uucp>
  79. NEWS2_11.TAR  2162688  07-07-88   News 2.11, with the first 13 patches
  80.                                | applied.  This is the official USENET news
  81.                                | software. Contributor: Rick Adams
  82.                                | <rick@seismo.css.gov>
  83. NWSMLTCS.TAR    32768  05-31-89   Software to make feeding a bunch of news
  84.                                | sites a whole lot easier. Contributor: Mark
  85.                                | H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.mn.org>
  86. NEWSBREK.TAR    16384  05-18-90   A program to unpack multi-file postings from
  87.                                | the comp.sources groups.  Version 1.09.
  88.                                | Contributor: Fred Walter
  89.                                | <grwalter@watfun.waterloo.edu>
  90. NEWSXD.TAR     125335  04-14-92   A configurable daemon for controlling news
  91.                                | transmission.  Allows categories of service,
  92.                                | transmission times, number of transmissions
  93.                                | at a time, etc.  Version 2.5.1. Contributor:
  94.                                | Chris Myers <chris@wugate.wustl.edu>
  95. NN.TAR        1425408  06-22-90   A menu-based news reader with a complete set
  96.                                | of features to satisfy both the expert and
  97.                                | novice user.  Menu based article selection,
  98.                                | automatic digest splitting, folders, online
  99.                                | help, built-in unshar, NNTP support.  Version
  100.                                | 6.4.  Patchlevel 4. Contributor: Kim F. Storm
  101.                                | <storm@texas.dk>
  102. NNTP.TAR       542720  04-14-92   The NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol,
  103.                                | RFC 997) protocol. Version 1.5.11.
  104. PRNEWS.SH        5204  03-22-89   A shell script to print news on the line
  105.                                | printer, typesetter, or whatever instead of
  106.                                | reading it at the terminal. Contributor: Col.
  107.                                | G. L. Sicherman <colonel@ellie.uucp>
  108. PROCSJNK.SH      8761  03-22-89   Another shell script to handle news articles
  109.                                | which get tossed into the "junk" directory.
  110.                                | Contributor: Charlie Perkins
  111.                                | <charliep@polaris.uucp>
  112. RKIVE.TAR      204800  07-15-89   USENET news archival software which can be
  113.                                | configured to do all sorts of things.
  114.                                | Contributor: Kent Landfield
  115.                                | <kent@ssbell.uucp>
  116. RN_43.TAR      925696  03-05-89   Version 4.3 of the "rn" program for reading
  117.                                | the network news. Be sure to apply the
  118.                                | patches in the "patches" directory.
  119.                                | Contributor: Larry Wall
  120.                                | <lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
  121. RNMACROS.SH      3067  03-22-89   Macros for the "rn" program to enable
  122.                                | killing of articles before reading them and
  123.                                | other stuff. Contributor: Glenn Reid
  124.                                | <greid@adobe.uucp>
  125. SAVENEWS.TAR    24576  03-05-89   A different news archival system, similar to
  126.                                | "keepnews", but works on larger archives. 
  127.                                | SAVENEWS.BUG contains a bug fix. Contributor:
  128.                                | Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui@nsc.uucp>
  129. SAVESRC.TAR     40960  03-05-89   A program to save sources off the USENET
  130.                                | news, automatically extract them, compile
  131.                                | them, and so on. Contributor:
  132.                                | <chris@toram.uucp>
  133. TRN.TAR       1040384  03-26-92   Threaded newsreader based on rn 4.4.  Builds
  134.                                | and installs with no special tweaking. 
  135.                                | Version 2.0. Contributor:  Wayne Davison
  136.                                | <davison@borland.com>
  137. UALTGRPS.TXT    32027  10-31-90   A list of the alternate newsgroups (alt.*)
  138.                                | available on USENET as of 4-Oct-90.
  139.                                | Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  140. U_GROUPS.TXT    34355  10-31-90   A list of the available newsgroups on USENET
  141.                                | as of 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford
  142.                                | <spaf@purdue.edu>
  143. UHISTORY.TXT    14351  10-31-90   A description of the history of USENET,
  144.                                | where to get source code for the news
  145.                                | software, etc.  Last updated 4-Oct-90.
  146.                                | Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  147. UINFOPST.TXT    25203  10-31-90   A list of the periodic repeated postings in
  148.                                | several newsgroups. Things such as archive
  149.                                | indexes, statistics, how-to articles, and so
  150.                                | on.  Last updated 14-Sep-90. Contributor:
  151.                                | Gene SPafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  152. U_INTRO.TXT      3203  05-18-90   An introduction to net.announce.  Last
  153.                                | updated 31-Mar-90. Contributor: Gene Spafford
  154.                                | <spaf@purdue.edu>
  155. UMAILSTS.TXT    86761  10-31-90   A list of mailing lists available primarily
  156.                                | on the UUCP network, as opposed to the
  157.                                | Internet.  This is similar to the
  158.                                | List-of-Lists maintained at NIC.DDN.MIL. 
  159.                                | Current as of 4-Oct-90. Contributor: Gene
  160.                                | Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  161. UMALPTHS.TXT     6129  10-31-90   A description of how to allow "posting" to
  162.                                | moderated newsgroups. Last update: 5-Sep-90.
  163.                                | Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  164. UMODRTRS.TXT    15423  10-31-90   The list of newsgroup moderators and the
  165.                                | groups they moderate as of 3-Oct-90.
  166.                                | Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  167. UNETIQUT.TXT    14554  11-04-89  
  168. UNETIQTE.TXT    14652  10-31-90   A *satirical* look at USENET ettiquette. 
  169.                                | Last update: 5-Sep-90. Contributor: Gene
  170.                                | Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  171. UNETWRKS.TXT     2647  11-04-89   How to get information about the National
  172.                                | Science Foundation (NSF) Internet.  Last
  173.                                | update: 16-Oct-89. Contributor: Gene Spafford
  174.                                | <spaf@purdue.edu>
  175. U_PRIMER.TXT    18068  10-31-90   "A Primer on How to Work With the USENET
  176.                                | Community", by Chuq Von Rospach.  All new
  177.                                | USENET news users should read this before tey
  178.                                | do anything else.  Last update: 4-Oct-90.
  179.                                | Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  180. UQUESTNS.TXT    23888  10-31-90   Answers to frequently asked questions on the
  181.                                | net.  The idea is to look here for the answer
  182.                                | before posting questions like "what does FOO
  183.                                | mean?".  Last updated 4-Oct-90. Contributor:
  184.                                | Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  185. UREGROPS.TXT    53191  10-31-90   A list of the regional newsgroup
  186.                                | hierarchies.  Last updated 4-Oct-90.
  187.                                | Contributor: Gene Spaffor <spaf@purdue.edu>
  188. U_RULES.TXT      9342  09-01-90   A description of the rules of conduct for
  189.                                | USENET.  Not following these rules will tend
  190.                                | to get you unmercifully flamed.  Last updated
  191.                                | 19-Jul-90. Contributor: Chris Torek
  192.                                | <chris@mimsy.umd.edu>
  193. USTRTGRP.TXT     7613  10-31-90   Instructions on how to establish a new
  194.                                | USENET newsgroup.  Last updated 6-Sep-90.
  195.                                | Contributor: Gene Spafford <spaf@purdue.edu>
  196. U_STYLE.TXT      4346  10-31-90   Suggestions for writing style on USENET. 
  197.                                | Last updated 5-Sep-90. Contributor: David
  198.                                | Booth <booth@vax135.uucp>
  199. UUNET.TAR        8192  07-01-89   Programs to do semi-automated UUCP retrieval
  200.                                | of files from UUNET. Contributor: Scott
  201.                                | Garfinkle <seg@smsdpg.uucp>
  202. VN.TAR         344064  03-05-89   A program which uses the same ".newsrc" file
  203.                                | as "readnews", but provides a full-screen
  204.                                | interface sort of like "rn" only different.
  205.                                | Contributor: Bob Mcqueer <bobm@rtech.uucp>
  206. WHATISIN.SH      2543  03-22-89   A shell script to determine what is
  207.                                | contained in various newsgroups at a glance.
  208.                                | Contributor: Greg Earle <earle@smeagol.uucp>
  209.