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- From: herby@danubix.ulm.sub.org (Herbert Dampel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <H.ea.x6AQVqyreog@danubix.ulm.sub.org>
- Organization: Node Ulm/Donau.
- Subject: Re: Hermes, NN, etc
- Summary: Newsreader, expire
- References: Re: Hermes, NN, etc
- Reply-To: herby@danubix.ul.open.de
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:01:40 MET
- Lines: 46
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- In <H.1sxuvuTFqgw@zebedee.uucp>, Geoffrey Coan writes:
- >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 ?
-
- Use a 16 Mhz CPU ;-)
-
- >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.
-
- Here's mine:
-
- junk|1d #expires after 1day
- comp.sys.atari.*|2d #guess :-)
- de.comp.sys.amiga.*|2d
- mercury.binaries|15d
- de.mag.chalisti|30d
- de.alt.binaries.*|1d
- gnet.*|5d
- ulm.*|30d
- uni-ulm.*|30d
- local.*|5d
- 3d #all others stay 3 days
-
- >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.
-
- No way, you'll have to login. I use GUS as a main shell and start a cli
- from it with '!', cli scans environment and all works fine.
-
- >4. How do I setup a signature file ?
-
- create signatur.mai and signatur.net in your home-dir.
-
- cu l8ter mfG herby@danubix.ulm.sub.org
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