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From: dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips)
Subject: Re: Yuck.  A New 386BSD User
References: <2f3b6p$pj1@r-node.io.org>
Organization: None whatsoever!
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 03:57:31 GMT
Message-ID: <CID9oA.1v4@deanstoy.wa.com>
Summary: You have work to do :-#)
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In article <2f3b6p$pj1@r-node.io.org> tsangc@r-node.io.org (Calum Tsang) writes:
[...]
a) and b) were answered by gene

>c) what news subsystem should we be using?  I know standard UNIX mail and uucp
>utilities are in place.

I am having good luck with c-news.  You can find it in the usual places.
It took a couple of days to get it set up.  One important note is that you
will have to replace sh with bash while you build it since the sh-clone
shipped with *BSD loses on some of the more complicated expressions in the
script.

>d) how can we get hold of these news programs?

Try anonymous FTP from ftp.uu.net.

>e) can one recommend a good book on how to begin using UNIX (we're all
>learning here) and administrating it?

No.  I learned primarily by doing.
-- 
Dean M. Phillips    Microsoft free and proud of it!    dean@deanstoy.wa.com