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- Usage
- ~~~~~
-
- First, connect to the internet, then double click on NewsHound.
-
- If you have 'Connect to default server on startup' set, NewsHound will
- start doing a newsfetch. Otherwise, click menu on it's icon, and
- then select 'Start Fetch', and the nick of your newsserver.
-
- (clicking adjust on the newshound icon will start a newsfetch to the
- default server)
-
- You'll get a status window showing progress if you had 'Open status at
- start of fetch' on, or you can click select on the newshound icon.
-
- Select 'Quit' from the menu when finished.
-
- NewsHound can be started by newsbase to perform periodic checks for
- news - see the params file in the newsbase transport for more details.
- (you *must* have the 'start fetch to server on startup' option switched
- on to use this facility.
-
- Fetching an active list (a list of all the newsgroups a server carries)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- You can request an active list by going to the 'Transport setup' window
- in newsbase, selecting NewsHound as the 'Transport', then clicking
- menu in the lower half of the window, and click on 'Get groups'.
- (This requires a relatively recent copy of newsbase!)
-