.TH HELLO 8
.SH NAME
HELLO \- perform initial conversation with a newsserver (used by sn news system)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B HELLO
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B HELLO
is the program that gets executed for every newsserver by the 
.I 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

.SH SEE ALSO
.B snget(8),
.B sn(8)