Newstools is a suite of programs developed over the years to help manage
news systems. I have several dozen tools, but limited time to package
them, so I'm releasing this work in progress on a fairly regular basis
to let people get some use from what's documented.

Questions and comments to newstools@tmr.com.

Thanks: some of these tools were developed while I was working under
contract for Prodigy Services. They have encouraged me to make them
available and are providing a fast net connection for posting.

Release notes:

09/29/95 - 1.3

  Fixed nslg to include the sizes required to compile, they were moved
>from  the header file to the C source in a later version which is still
not stable.

  Added connrate to the suite. This generates two plot files, one of
outgoing article rate to readers, one of new connects per second. This
operates against the news.notice file.

  Supplied some missing PERL includes for the PERL version of artrate.

  A few README files add, too.

09/23/95
  This release includes nslg, the NNTP synthetic load generator. Note
that because this is under development you will want to rename the file
nslg.c as loadtest.c. With that change the program should compile and
run.

BUG LIST

  Several people have reported that ncc does not skip .overview files
of you have NOV and news spool sharing the same hierarchy. All my
systems use NOV in it's own directory for performance (even on the same
device), but there is code to handle this case. I put checking this on
the "to-do" list. If you don't have this problem or solve it, please let
me know.
