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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!nwnexus!deanstoy!dean From: dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips) Subject: Re: Yuck. A New 386BSD User References: <2f3b6p$pj1@r-node.io.org> Organization: None whatsoever! Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 03:57:31 GMT Message-ID: <CID9oA.1v4@deanstoy.wa.com> Summary: You have work to do :-#) Lines: 23 In article <2f3b6p$pj1@r-node.io.org> tsangc@r-node.io.org (Calum Tsang) writes: [...] a) and b) were answered by gene >c) what news subsystem should we be using? I know standard UNIX mail and uucp >utilities are in place. I am having good luck with c-news. You can find it in the usual places. It took a couple of days to get it set up. One important note is that you will have to replace sh with bash while you build it since the sh-clone shipped with *BSD loses on some of the more complicated expressions in the script. >d) how can we get hold of these news programs? Try anonymous FTP from ftp.uu.net. >e) can one recommend a good book on how to begin using UNIX (we're all >learning here) and administrating it? No. I learned primarily by doing. -- Dean M. Phillips Microsoft free and proud of it! dean@deanstoy.wa.com