batch Output batcher. It should work with B News, but not as well -- it really wants to be told sizes of articles as well as names. conf Configuration stuff, including the "build" shell program that does most of the work of installing C News. contrib Software from other contributors, possibly useful but not really an official part of C News. dbz a faster replacement for dbm for news programs which generates smaller database files than dbm. doc User documentation, including "install" which discusses how to install C News. Although the documentation is supplied as troff sources, no complex formatting is used and it should be quite readable even if you don't have a troff to format it. We supply preformatted output for doc/install, as doc/install.out, just as a precaution. expire Expire and friends, including history rebuilding and active-file updating (neither of which is done by expire in C News). Ought to work with B News. Fast, and permits control of expiry time and such on a per-group basis. h Header files for include (see below). hfake Header files that your system ought to have but possibly doesn't, for include (see below). include Actually not in distribution -- "build" constructs this from h and hfake as required. inject front-end for relaynews to massage posted articles into RFC compliance input Input spooler and processing. Includes the "rnews" that goes in /bin or wherever. libsmall libbig Libraries for a couple of key functions that care whether they have a large address space to work with. libbsd42 libusg libv7 libv8 Libraries for details that are Unix-variety-specific. libc Stuff that ought to be in your C library but probably isn't. libcnews General C News library functions. libfake Stuff that might be in your C library, but might not be. libstdio Fast re-implementations of some crucial stdio functions. These are compatible with most Bell-derived stdios, and quite a bit faster than most of the pre-System-V ones (which includes those of many 4BSD variants). man Manual pages. misc Miscellaneous internal utilities and maintenance programs. notebook The C News Implementor's Notebook -- pieces of documentation aimed more at gurus than novices. relay Relaynews and friends. The heart of C News -- actual reception and filing of articles. rna A simple version of readnews (by Michael Rourke at UNSW) for naive news users.