+;; Probably this entire thing should be obsolete.
+;; It's only used to init nnspool-spool-directory, so why not just
+;; set that variable's default directly?
+(eval-and-compile
+ (defvar news-directory (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
+ "/usr/spool/news/"
+ "/var/spool/news/")
+ "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
+ (defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory))
+
+;; Ditto re obsolescence.
+(defvar news-inews-program
+ (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
+ (t "inews"))
+ "Program to post news.")
+