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- From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
- Subject: Re: wnews
- Message-ID: <920904513@gandalf.moria>
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- References: <Bu0Fyr.HtM@csn.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 15:59:01 +0100
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- In article <Bu0Fyr.HtM@csn.org>, tbuck@teal.csn.org (Timothy E. Buchanan) writes:
- > csn is the name of my internet host, and to.tbucks a test newsgroup I asked
- > them to set. BTW, is there a way to make pnews use the screen editor
- > /usr/bin/me that I placed in wnews.h before running make?
-
- Well, what does it use instead? I use ~e to get into the editor.
-
- > When I exited pnews this article was placed in /usr/spool/news/to/tbucks
- > and checknews replied there is news. However, nothing was moved into
- > /usr/spool/batch.
-
- Did you make entries in the sys file for other sites? I am not sure if
- you have to create an empty file with the hostname of the other sites.
-
- > My impression is that pnews should call inews to place this article into
- > /usr/spool/batch since the distribution is csn (I also tried it w/ world).
- > If I run inews the program hangs.
-
- That indeed how it works. inews reads from stdin, is that what you mean
- with "hang"?
-
- > Could there be something wrong w/ inews; I got several msgs when making it,
- > variables not used and one strict integer pun. Or p'haps I'm not using it
- > right; the only docs included were the .8 pages. Where can I get the full
- > manual?
-
- There is a wonderful manual written by FvK, which explains how all
- programs work together, what the sys and active files are for etc.
- I suggest checking MINIX archives for getting a complete distribution,
- e.g. ftp.thp.uni-koeln.de:pub/minix. It seems to me, that you didn't
- read that manual, because it explains the questions you asked. You also
- should have got examples for the configuration files.
-
- I use wnews on Linux 0.96-pl1 (in former times I used it on MINIX) and
- it works fine.
-
- Michael
-