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  <TITLE>W3C Sample Code Library libwww News/NNTP Client</TITLE>
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<H1>
  Declaration of W3C Sample Code News/NNTP Client
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/*
**	(c) COPYRIGHT MIT 1995.
**	Please first read the full copyright statement in the file COPYRIGH.
*/
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This application interface defines a News client which &nbsp;can be used
together with the <A HREF="WWWCore.html">Library core</A>.The module itself
is <I>not</I> part of the <A HREF="WWWCore.html">Library core</A>. It may
be registered by the application if wanted. The application may also use
the <A HREF="HTProfil.html">application profiles</A> to initialize this module.
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#ifndef WWWNEWS_H
#define WWWNEWS_H
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#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" { 
#endif
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<H3>
  System dependencies
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The <A HREF="wwwsys.html">wwwsys.h</A> file includes system-specific include
files and flags for I/O to network and disk. The only reason for this file
is that the Internet world is more complicated than Posix and ANSI.
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#include "<A HREF="wwwsys.html">wwwsys.h</A>"
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  NNTP Protocol State machine
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The state machine handles requests and responses to an NNTP server according
to the NNTP specifications.
<PRE>#include "<A HREF="HTNews.html">HTNews.h</A>"
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<H3>
  News Request Stream
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The request stream generates a request which may or may not include a message
body to be posted to the server
<PRE>#include "<A HREF="HTNewsRq.html">HTNewsRq.h</A>"
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<H3>
  News Response Stream for Messages and group Listings
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The News response streams parses the output from an NNTP server. The two
formats understood are News groups and News articles.
<PRE>#include "<A HREF="HTNewsLs.html">HTNewsLs.h</A>"
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<H3>
  Presentation of News Listings in HTML
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When the output has been received then we convert it to HTML by parsing it
through the following stream.
<PRE>#include "<A HREF="HTNDir.html">HTNDir.h</A>"
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End of News module
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#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* end extern C definitions */
#endif

#endif
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