$Id: INSTALL,v 1.5 1993/11/29 19:14:32 alden Exp $

                 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR NNTPLINK
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0)   First read the README.  Next, read README.CNEWS if you are using
     C News, README.INN if you are using INN, or README.BNEWS if you
     are using B news.

1)   Copy include/dist_conf.h to include/conf.h and make any necessary
     changes which reflect your system setup.

2)   Edit Makefile.in to specify the compilation options and the installation
     locations.

4)   Type "configure" to create Makefile and src/Makefile

5)   Type "make" to make nntplink

6)   You may wish to test nntplink.  Start up an nntplink process (with
     the -d option) and make sure everything looks ok.  (Make sure that
     you don't have any nntplink processes already running to that site).

7)   Type "make install" to install nntplink.

8)   Check out the "support" subdirectory.  It contains the (optional)
     patches for B news and C news.  "dfile" - for converting your old
     nntplink datafiles to the current version (only needed on pre-3.0
     datafiles).  "links" - for start/restarting/stopping nntplink
     processes "automagically".  See the corresponding README's for
     more information.  It also contains a patch for cnews if you are
     using ihave/sendme with cnews.

9)   Install the "links" program (along with the "links-list" datafile).
     Even if you don't need to use the "links" program to handle 
     starting the nntplink processes, you at least need to run "links clear"
     at boot time (this resets the pid field of the nntplink datafile to
     "-999").
