NAME

       HELLO - perform initial conversation with a newsserver (used by sn news system)

SYNOPSIS

       HELLO

DESCRIPTION

       HELLO  is  the  program  that  gets  executed  for  every  newsserver by the snget(8) program. There is a
       connection to the newsserver, but nothing has been sent or received yet. This program handles the initial
       contact.  File  descriptors  6  is used for data coming from the newsserver, and descriptor 7 is used for
       data going to the newsserver.

       This program is used by the sn news system.

       You never have to use this program yourself. However, when a newsserver is non-standard, you may have  to
       modify    a    copy   of   it   for   that   server.    Newsserver-specific   copies   should   go   into
       /var/spool/sn/.outgoing/HOST

SEE ALSO

       snget(8), sn(8)

                                                                                                        HELLO(8)