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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: mNews vs GRN setup/features
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- References: <4f5eao$d4v@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
- X-NewsReader: GRn 3.0a February 1, 1996
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- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 07:04:17 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <4f5eao$d4v@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> csanii@bnr.ca (Cyrus Sanii) writes:
- > 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?
-
- NO! _NEVER_ use DEVICE or UNIT on GRn except with auw.device or dnet.device.
-
- You need "grn nntp nntpserver <whatever>".
-
- > 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.
-
- There is a debug version of GRn included in both the GRn 2.1a archive.
- You don't need NNTPuserid and NNTPpasswd unless your provider says you
- do.
-
- > 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.
-
- You don't need anything else besides the nntp flag for GRn. For 2.1a,
- you'll still the the UU assigns.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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