This is an experimental netnews configurator. It's really a crazy awk script that reads in options and generates commands to edit template defs.h and Makefile. System defaults are in the *.dflt files; user data is in a similar form, and is supplied as a list of files on the 'config' command. Options may be given as: +option Turn on option -option Turn of option option=value Turn on option and supply a value In the default files, '@@' is used as the pattern for which a value is substituted. The string '-option=value' is legal, and can be used to supply a default value for an option that is normally turned off. The special option 'version' is used to indicate the underlying system; it should by 'v7', 'usg', or 'ihcc'. 'Makefile', 'postnews', and 'install' may be respecified individually in a similar fashion. Case *is* significant in options, which is rather unfortunate. A sample configuration file is given in MHB5B.