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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.  
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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