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authorandreas <andreas@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000
committerandreas <andreas@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-04 14:53:11 +0000
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cosmetic changes using portlint, a really nice tool ;-)
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-rw-r--r--news/dnews/Makefile6
-rw-r--r--news/dnews/pkg-descr97
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 84 deletions
diff --git a/news/dnews/Makefile b/news/dnews/Makefile
index 7a25131..dda51b5 100644
--- a/news/dnews/Makefile
+++ b/news/dnews/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
# Date created: Thu May 29 17:16:36 CEST 1997
# Whom: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
#
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.4 1997/05/30 02:59:09 asami Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.5 1997/08/17 10:36:44 andreas Exp $
#
DISTNAME= dnews
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ NO_CDROM= "have to ask the company, if we are allowed to put it on CDROM"
RESTRICTED= "only free for non-profit organis. like schools + universities"
NO_PACKAGE= "we are not allowed, sorry"
-# dnewsweb is a cgi program that allows you to read and post news through
-# your WWW Navigator of your choice, so that you don't need a special
+# dnewsweb is a cgi program that allows you to read and post news through
+# your WWW Navigator of your choice, so that you don't need a special
# news reader. Default is, not to install dnewsweb.
pre-fetch:
diff --git a/news/dnews/pkg-descr b/news/dnews/pkg-descr
index 6bed76f..40d3af9 100644
--- a/news/dnews/pkg-descr
+++ b/news/dnews/pkg-descr
@@ -1,82 +1,17 @@
-Copyright note
-==============
+Feature list (trimmed):
+- Dynamic sucking feed.
+- Flexible expire settings
+- Flexible access restrictions
+- Binarys available for common platforms
+- Email confirmation of posts
+- Items stored in a database
+- Compiling and porting relatively easy
+- Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling
+- Documentated
+- Supported
+- Speed
+- XOVER implemented in software
+- Streaming support
+- Strictly limited machine impact due to single threaded nature
- ==> four week free trial period
- ==> free for approved non-profit organisations like schools or
- universities. But you still need to *register* your free copy
- of DNEWS News Server to get the free license key.
- ==> *payware* for other people and organisations
-
-More Infos
-==========
-
- http://netwinsite.com/
-
-DNEWS Feature list
-==================
-
- Dynamic sucking feed.
- A sucking feed may use as little as 10% of the normal
- disk space and network bandwidth.
- By only getting news items that people usually read
- very large savings are possible particularly for small
- sites & workgroups. A hundred users can be supported
- on 100 MB depending on their reading habbits!
- I run a single user server on my NT as a background
- service, it's using less than 5MB.
- Flexible expire settings
- By allowing expiration by 'number of items' low volume groups
- become much more useful. Also by allowing settings
- which change with disk space the system is much more
- stable to large influxes of news.
- Flexible access restrictions
- Reading and Posting access can be given separately to
- to different users and selections of news groups.
- Binarys available for common platforms
- On many platforms you do not need to build the binary
- yourself, e.g. VMS, (VAX & ALPHA), Solaris, Linux, Windows NT
- Email confirmation of posts
- DNEWS can be configured to send email confirmations as it
- sends items up to a main news server. This gives users
- a clear record of a posted item and it's successful
- transfer into the 'net'.
- Items stored in a database
- Items are stored in a database which puts items together
- in blocks of 100. This saves directory entries, inodes,
- and the empty space usually wasted due to blocking factors.
- Also file open and closes are minimized, this is essential
- on systems where this is a 'costly' operation, e.g. VMS.
- Compiling and porting relatively easy
- DNEWS was designed to be portable from the ground up, it
- does not rely on obscure UNIX features.
- Installation easy, totally configurable without recompiling
- DNEWS can be configured without recompiling and all
- the configuration scripts have been simplified where
- possible.
- Documentated
- A user manual is available.
- Supported
- EMAIL support is available for help with installation
- and management.
- Speed
- On comparable systems DNEWS typically out performs other
- news software, (even the likes of CNEWS and INN in some
- instances), other VMS news servers don't even come close.
- This is partly because DNEWS uses a more advanced database
- to store the news items. The difference is also very
- noteable on smaller systems (e.g. Linux)
- XOVER implemented in software
- No xover database is created, the normal DNEWS database
- is fast enough to create this information 'on the fly'
- Streaming support
- Streaming NNTP extensions are built in.
- Strictly limited machine impact due to single threaded nature.
- DNEWS runs on a single process, this speeds up connect
- time as a process does not need to be created, and it
- self-limits the impact on the system.
-Limitations
-===========
-
- DNEWS does not store items in the same file structure as used by
- INN and CNEWS, so old software which accesses these files directly
- will not work.
+Copyright and more infos: http://netwinsite.com/
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