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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!hunter.premier.net!insync!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 21:37:22 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4qcgai$2ds_002@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> <4qblua$hpp@jik.israel.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.186 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.readers:27911 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21760 In article <4qblua$hpp@jik.israel.net>, jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com (Jonathan Kamens) wrote: >In article <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com>, conrads@no.such.domain (Conrad > Sabatier) writes: >|> What I'd like is a way to read news from my ISP via NNTP over a 28.8K >|> dialup connection *without* having to download the entire list of groups >|> every time I start up my newsreader. > >Both knews and xrn can do this. I don't know about knews, but since I >maintain XRN, I can tell you where to get it :-). The current >production release is available from ><URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/xrn.tgz>. The current beta release >is available from <URL:ftp://ftp.cam.ov.com/pub/xrn/beta.tgz>. > >I don't distribute a binary XRN release for FreeBSD, only for Linux, so >I guess you'll just have to compile it. It really isn't hard to >compile, though. Thanks. I'll keep this info for when I get around to setting up X. :-) Ok, we've made some progress here. I've got trn up and running, reading just fine from my ISP's NNTP server, *but*... I can't post! During the trn build, I was forced to tell it to use inews (at least, that *seemed* to be the case; not much choice if I wanted to continue). OK, so I installed cnews, so I'd have an inews on my system. Was this a mistake? Inews only wants to post locally. Can I do without an external inews, and if so, how? Or maybe I just don't have inews configured properly? I'm really anxious to get this thing working. News is my main thing on the net. :-) Thanks for any help. -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/