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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newsreaders Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 18:06:31 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <nds4n5.of2.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> References: <EB7xzw.L2w@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test58 (13 May 97) Originator: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42413 In article <EB7xzw.L2w@nonexistent.com>, Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote: >I am using a 28.8 dialup connection to keep my box on the Internet, >as a server. Everytime I start up a newsreader like trn, it wastes >a half hour "Retrieving news active file" then some more time retrieving >new newsgroups. In your ~/.trn/access file, set the "Active File" option for your news server to a filename on your local machine, and trn will cache a copy of the active file. See /usr/local/lib/trn/access.def for details. -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads