Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.unix.questions:59974 comp.unix.misc:15531 comp.unix.aix:50135 comp.unix.bsd:15903 comp.unix.shell:20036 comp.unix.advocacy:3784 comp.mail.pine:3929 comp.mail.uucp:13822 Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.mail.pine,comp.mail.uucp Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!nott!cunews!freenet.carleton.ca!FreeNet.Carleton.CA!ao826 From: ao826@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David A Hosten) Subject: 3 questions ? ? ? Mail, Unix, Internet. Message-ID: <D29rpH.Gwo@freenet.carleton.ca> Sender: ao826@freenet3.carleton.ca (David A Hosten) Reply-To: ao826@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (David A Hosten) Organization: The National Capital FreeNet Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 01:48:52 GMT Lines: 43 I am posting this in the hope somewhere out there [over the rainbow ;) ] somebody will be able these three questions. I'm a Unix newbie (being very familiar with less tasking [get it?] systems like Windoze, OS/2, WinNT, etc. So here are the questions: 1. (a) How do I change my environment to enable Pico to replace the vi editor, for my own personal use, on the Aix system we have at school. I know Pico well, and have grown accoustomed to it. Vi is fine, but, to me more of a pain in the butt to use. I'm auto-launched into a Korn shell at login, but can change at will. Any suggestions? (b) How do I edit (and where do I find) my .tinrc file to enable Pico as my editor for Usenet read/reply? 2. (a) How may I retrieve posts to Usenet groups that my Freenet/University accounts do not subscribe to? There must be some way of doing an FTP equivalent to a site that collects the postings. (b) Is there a way of uucp retrieving them from sites? (c) If so, is it then possible to e-mail a group directly from the Pine mailer...what would be put into the To: address section? (d) Why is the location of usenet-news servers appear to be so secret and inaccessible to the regular FTP public? Reason: there are some alt.fan.* groups that we would like to pick up to do some research on media influence. 3. Our recalcitrant sysadmins won't respond to e-mail, so what are you normally do with a student aix account? I'm trying to teach myself a bit of Unix (am going to decide between Free/386/NetBsd, Linux or Solaris [apparently have a $100 educational deal] versions), so will want to eventually know the answers to these questions anyway. Please Reply Via E-Mail Some of you may notice that I had previously asked one of these questions, and I thank those who kindly responded, but lost the info on my HD at home (a friend was playing with the computer and DoD deleted the contents of a whole directory with PC Tools Pro V.9). Thanks to all of you who will help increase knowledge.... -- __David Hosten__Publishing Editor__International Free Press_Electronic ao826@freenet.carleton.ca|dhosten@freenet.fsu.edu|dhosten@ifp.synapse.net ____Department Of Mass Communications___University Of Ottawa__CAN____ //////Unless otherwise stated, comments made here are my own\\\\\\\\