
Readme file for newspak installation
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"The nice things about standards is that you can always pick one you like" 
							- Bob Grosso 1989


There is no such thing as the 'one true directory structure' and it is
likely that there never will be.  Accordingly, newspak is distributed with
template config files that need to be processed with the supplied shell
script to make working config files with your idea of 'standard' pathnames.

Basically you want to do something like the following:

	- cd defs

	- edit defs.site to set the locations of things to match
		your tastes.  There are a few example files for you
		that you can simply copy over the provided defs.site
		to make editing easier.

		- defs.sls are the paths in the SLS newspak stuff
		- defs.victrola are the very non-standard paths here

	- edit make-configs to set the pathname all these goodies are
		located in (since not every system has a working 'pwd'
		command or a shell with it built-in).  Make sure that
		the DEFS file matches the one you edited above :-)

	- run make-configs.  It essentially runs 'sed' on boilerplate
		config files for each of the ktis that need things edited.

	- drop the appropriate config files from the newspak subdirectories
		into the sources you've grabbed from the usual uucp/news/mail
		locations.

Then proceed to compile the software normally from the sources according to
the various docs that come with the sources for each package....

Special notes:
	- make sure all news software agrees on where 'inews' is located
	- make sure UUCP can find rnews in its standard path or by
		explicitly providing a full path in the Permissions file
		if you run in HDB mode


						Vince Skahan
						vince@victrola.wa.com
						November 18, 1993

