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Apple II Email and Usenet News Suite

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NNTP65UP.SYSTEM

Run using Closed Apple-S in EMAIL.SYSTEM

NNTP65UP

NNTP65UP.SYSTEM is a Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) client for the Apple II. It requires an Uthernet-II ethernet card and will not work with other interfaces without modification, because it uses the W5100 hardware TCP/IP stack.

NNTP65UP.SYSTEM handles transmission of news articles to the NNTP server. Reception of news articles is handled by NNTP65.SYSTEM.

Before running NNTP65UP.SYSTEM for the first time, be sure to have created the NEWS.SENT mailbox. This must be a 'proper' mailbox, not just a directory. You may create a mailbox using the N (new mailbox) command in EMAIL.SYSTEM.

NNTP65UP

NNTP65UP.SYSTEM performs the following tasks:

  • Detect Uthernet-II.
  • Obtain IP address using DHCP.
  • Open the NEWS.OUTBOX directory.
  • For each file in NEWS.OUTBOX:
    • If file name is EMAIL.DB or NEXT.EMAIL skip to next.
    • Open the file and search for the headers "Newsgroups:" and "Subject:".
    • Display the newgroup and subject information and prompt the user as follows: S)end message | H)old message in NEWS.OUTBOX | D)elete message from NEWS.OUTBOX.
    • If the user chooses D then delete the article from NEWS.OUTBOX and contine to the next message (if any).
    • If the user chooses H then retain the article in NEWS.OUTBOX and contine to the next message (if any).
    • If the user chooses S then proceed to send the message to the NNTP server, as follows:
      • If not already connected, connect to NNTP server. Check the return code from the server to make sure posting is allowed.
      • Authenticate with the NNTP server using parameters from first three lines of NEWS.CFG. (AUTHINFO USER and AUTHINFO PASS commands)
    • Issue the POST command to the NNTP server to start posting an article.
    • Send the contents of the file to the NNTP server.
    • Check the return code from the NNTP server indicates that transmission was successful.
    • Close the file.
    • Copy the article to the NEWS.SENT mailbox.
    • Remove the article from the NEWS.OUTBOX directory.
  • Issue QUIT command to NNTP server to disconnect.
  • If NNTP65UP.SYSTEM was invoked from EMAIL.SYSTEM, load and run EMAIL.SYSTEM. Otherwise quit to ProDOS.

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