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

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

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

snget(8),sn(8)HELLO(8)

HELLO