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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:39:48 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <31CA0B74.5AAC@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.readers:27927 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21779 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > I'm kinda new at this, having just installed FreeBSD on my Windows 95 > box, so excuse me if any of the following sounds dumb. :-) > > 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. I'm beginning to suspect this is > not going to have a simple solution, or am I mistaken? > > I tried doing a make of trn from the FreeBSD ports collection, but got > hopelessly lost in the long configuration dialog. Is it possible to just > grab a compiled package from somewhere and plop it onto my system, or > does it have to be customized for each installation? Is an external news > transport system an absolute must? Do I have to, in effect, become my > own news admin? > > Again, these questions may sound stupid to you seasoned UNIX pros out > there, but I'm just learning this stuff right now. > > If there *is* a reader that will let me download the active file a single > time and then just update it on each connect, a la News Xpress and a > host of other readers for Windows, *please*, *please* tell me what it is, > where to get it, etc. This tin is driving me crazy! :-) > I'm not sure if this is exactly what you want, but it may be workable. Netscape includes a news reader section that defaults to loading only those newsgroups to which you have subscribed (it starts with the basic 3). If you have X11 going, you can use Netscape for BSDI (you may need to symlink /usr/X11 to /usr/X11R6, but then it'll work), or for Win95. It may not be the worlds best newsreader, but it is more convenient than tin! Ken