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- Path: bmerhc5e.bnr.ca!csanii
- From: csanii@bnr.ca (Cyrus Sanii)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: mNews vs GRN setup/features
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:21:28 GMT
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4f5eao$d4v@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: bmerhc8e.bnr.ca
- Originator: csanii@bmerhc8e
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- I am trying to setup my system so I can read/post news from home. Here is the current situation:
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- a)mNews works great as a reader and was trivial to setup but the posting
- features have not been written yet
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- b)GRN has both read/post capabilities and I was able to get it running using
- UUCP but I am now using TCP/IP-PPP for my connection and have been unable to
- get GRN to work. It starts and I select subscribe and it goes into a loop
- saying contacting NewsServer but it never comes back. There does not seem to
- be any error messages nor DEBUG info to let me know what is going on.
- I ran SNOOPDOS to try to figure out if variables were not being set but it
- seems they are. My main question is for PPP what do I put as the device?
- Is it DEVS:NETWORK/ppp.device with UNIT=0 or do I use device=serial.device, or
- should it be something else?
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- Is there anyway to turn a DEBUG mode on to tell me what the software is trying
- to do? Also for the NNTPuserid and NNTPpasswd what should those values be set
- to? For mNews I did not have to define them and it worked perfectly.
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- In mNews I only had to set:
- userid,username,NNTPserver,domainname,hostname,and maybe a path variable to get
- it to work. I assume GRN is more complicated because it can be used through
- UUCP,TCP/IP via ethernet/SLIP/PPP and possible a few other methods.
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- Please send me any ideas as to what I may be setting up wrong or how I can
- figure out this problem.
- csanii@bnr.ca
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