An Agent is a mechanism to interpret User Selection and display related information. To setup Hotnews for a category, that category needs to be configured with Absolute path and URL address using Category Admin in the PSAdmin user interface. In real time, this .txt is continuously updated with the list of the latest sites. The End user page reads the sites from this file and displays them every time the user comes to this page. Netscape recommends administrators create their own files as per the Format explained in the section Format of Category Data Files that follows.
Webmasters can also see the format from the sample files.
Samples are available for categories baseball, latimes, blues and basketball. For each configurable category, there should be a corresponding catgname.txt file. This file is read and displayed in the end user page, if the user selects this category. HotNews For each configurable category for HotNews, create a directory and copy all the related HTML files into this directory. Use the PSAdmin screen to configure this as the Absolute Path Directory.