diff -r f907866f0e4b -r 6fceb66e1ad7 org/sonews/daemon/command/HelpCommand.java
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/org/sonews/daemon/command/HelpCommand.java	Fri Jun 26 16:48:50 2009 +0200
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+/*
+ *   SONEWS News Server
+ *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
+ *
+ *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *   (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *   GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package org.sonews.daemon.command;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import org.sonews.daemon.NNTPConnection;
+import org.sonews.util.io.Resource;
+
+/**
+ * This command provides a short summary of the commands that are
+ * understood by this implementation of the server.  The help text will
+ * be presented as a multi-line data block following the 100 response
+ * code (taken from RFC).
+ * @author Christian Lins
+ * @since sonews/0.5.0
+ */
+public class HelpCommand extends AbstractCommand
+{
+  
+  public HelpCommand(final NNTPConnection conn)
+  {
+    super(conn);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean hasFinished()
+  {
+    return true;
+  }
+  
+  @Override
+  public void processLine(final String line)
+    throws IOException
+  {
+    printStatus(100, "help text follows");
+    
+    final String[] help = Resource
+      .getAsString("helpers/helptext", true).split("\n");
+    for(String hstr : help)
+    {
+      println(hstr);
+    }
+    
+    println(".");
+  }
+  
+}