





The flow of news articles through C news is  as  follows:  a
batch  is  received  by  some  network service and passed to
rnews, which invokes $NEWSBIN/input/newsspool to  queue  the
batch        in        $NEWSARTS/in.coming;       eventually
$NEWSBIN/input/newsrun will be run by cron, it  uncompresses
any   files  in.coming  and  either  hands  the  article  to
$NEWBIN/relay/relaynews locally or invokes relaynews over  a
network connection on its file server.

relaynews writes the name of each spool file onto  the  ends
of   batch  files  for  neighbours.   Eventually  cron  runs
$NEWSBIN/batch/sendbatches, which batches  up  the  outgoing
articles and transmits them over some network.












































                       March 26, 1991


