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From: root@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (Minnie Bannister)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.announce,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Monthly Reminder: 386bsd news archive via ftp
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Date: 14 Sep 1993 18:02:12 -0700
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Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the news on 386BSD, taken from the
Usenet newsgroups on 386BSD. This archive can be accessed either via telnet
or email. 

You can do two things:

	+ search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern
	+ retrieve particular articles

To do this, you send email to bsdnews@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, with your commands
in the body of the email. The commands are:

	help		       - get help about the service
	grep <egrep pattern>   - look for this pattern in the subject lines
	read <article>	       - retrieve the specific article
	quit		       - lines after this command will be ignored

You can send multiple commands in an email to minnie. Your return email
will have your command lines and the results of each command line.

You can also access the 386BSD news archive on minnie with telnet. Simply
telnet to minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au and login as `bsdnews'. The commands to use
the service are the same as for the email service. You can set/unset both
TERM and PAGER, if you want to get a page at a time. Use the help command to
get more help on the service.

*** Note ***

The telnet version of bsdnews now has a case-insensitive grep/prog function.
Simply do grep -i word to do a case-insensitive search. I will be altering
the email version to do this as well.

Questions on the bsdnews service on minnie can be sent to Warren Toomey at
wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au.


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