Changi NNTP Server 0.9v
Welcome to another beta, again.
THIS MANUAL IS NOT COMPLETED AT ALL. IT CONTAINS VERY
BAD BUGS AND MAY CONVERT YOUR EQUIPMENT TO A PILE
OF SCRAP IN LESS THEN A SECOND.
THE ONLY INTENTION OF THIS MANUAL IS TO PROVIDE A TINY
PIECE OF INFORMATION TO BETA TESTERS
Very special thanks to Joe Kovacs, who corrected and polished
this manual. Joe could be reached at
jakovacs@sentex.net.
Key Features
Changi is an NNTP server. It's distributed as set of programs
which enable you to read and write newsgroup articles using any
popular NNTP newsreader on a single machine, on a local TCP/IP
network or through the global Internet. It's popularly used as
an offline newsreader for standalone computers.
The design of this software is mainly oriented towards
- offering a complete, fast, flexible and cost effective news system.
- using platform-independent standards.
In particular:
- Very fast operation even on low cost hardware. Changi
is able to receive more than half a Gigabyte of news per
day on a 486DX2/100.
- Changi is free. If you like it, the author asks
for a postcard showing your hometown.
- Supports the entire NNTP protocol standard plus most
of the commonly used extensions like XOVER, XHDR, XPAT, XROVER
and XGTITLE.
- Extremely fast and very flexible news expiration including
'
Expire:
' header support.
- Specially designed to operate 24 hours a day. Incoming
articles are accepted and queued even during critical internal
operations like history rebuilding.
- Open design. Article storage, overview database and history
file layouts follow well accepted UNIX implementations and will
easily interface to existing and coming news software.
- No cryptic binary or platform-dependend configuration files.
- Three different modes of news exchange:
- Online via pushfeed (Operates with INN, nntpd and other
popular news software).
- Offline, using the included passive client, which supports
filtering.
- Via third party software like UUPC/extended, which supports
very efficient news exchange via compressed batches.
- Uses cross-platform syslog daemon for logging.
- Supports standard, platform-independent user authentication.
- Configurable host and user based access permission (read,
write and feeding) to any newsgroup.
- More than hundred configuration options to meet user specific
needs, but easy basic installation within minutes.
- Controlable from remote hosts.
System requirements
- To run Changi, you need either OS/2 Version 2.0 or above or
Windows NT 4.0.
- Changi needs HPFS or NTFS. It will not work on FAT formatted drives.
- To run the OS/2 version you need either IBM's TCP/IP (base kit
version 2.0 or above), IAK from the Bonus Pack or any other 32 Bit
Version of OS/2 with TCP/IP support installed, like Warp Connect,
Warp Server or Warp 4.0.
Installation and Configuration
If you absolutely refuse to read this manual now, follow the
instructions in at least these four pages to get the server up
and running:
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