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)