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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!jonh.wimsey.bc.ca!jhenders
- From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <H.ea.yfzYLpB26s2@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: One of these days for sure
- X-News: HERMES MMAIL 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Subject: Re: Hermes, NN, etc
- References: <H.1sxuvuTFqgw@zebedee.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:48:08 -0700
- Lines: 42
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- In <H.1sxuvuTFqgw@zebedee.uucp> geoffc@zebedee.uucp (Geoffrey Coan) writes:
-
- >I've just finished upgrading from Mercury 1.18 to Hermes 1.03 and appart from
- >a few problems with understanding the German, it was a largely painless
- >transition. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone who hasn't used Mercury before
- >as the docs are patchy to say the least !
-
- >A few questions though:
-
- >1. Is there a better news reader than GUS ? I don't like the GEM
- > interface as it slows me down. Although I can use rn (from the
- > Mercury package) OK it would be really nice to get a better news
- > reader (eg: can do Kill of a subject, etc). I've heard that NN
- > is good - any comments ?
-
- NN is very good, as long as you don't care about having absolutely
- no access to GEM. There is an Anglish help file around to help you set
- it up. If you actually pay to register Hermes, you'll get source to Gus.
- et all, and can fix it any way you like.
-
- >2. How can you get the expire program to work ? The format of the
- > expire.def file is a mystery to me as my German isn't all that good
- > and there isn't an example in the package.
-
- format is group.name nd nh na where n is a number, and d is days, a
- is articles, and I think h is hours.
-
- >3. Is there anyway I can get gus to remember what my username is
- > - I've got a current.usr file setup but I still have to type geoffc
- > every time. I've tried setting up a LOGNAME environment variable
- > but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
-
- Not that I've figured out.
-
- >4. How do I setup a signature file ?
-
- Same as mercury. signatur.net, and signature.mai in ~/
- --
- John Henders " Only _my_ words are relevant to the issue "
- T.K.O.O.C. <1992May11.073237.14684@rotag.mi.org>
- kevin@rotag.mi.org(Kevin "I'm not a net cop" Darcy)
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