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From: pi@xyplex4-1-2.ucs.indiana.edu (Ray Gilbert)
Subject: Re: News
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 07:05:59 GMT
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mcgovern@world.std.com (Brian J McGovern) wrote:
>I just got a reply saying that I wasn't clear enough on my request, so I'll
>elaborate...
>
>I'm looking to set up trn on my FreeBSD system so that I can read and send
>news to someone elses news server. I seem to have trn "ready", but I don't want
>to really try it out until I get my PPP link the way I want it, and after
>I'm also sure I'm capable of sending news.
>
>What I'm looking for is, besides trn, rn, etc, what I need to get news up and
>running from a News server.
I just set up trn on my FreeBSD system running over a PPP link (I'm
using it to do this posting :-) ). I first grabbed trn and it said
that I needed some way to get to the news server. So then from
ports/ in -current I grabbed NNTP, the Network News Transfer Protocol,
and tried to compile that. I wasn't able to get that working until I
installed C-News. The FreeBSD docs in -current for NNTP claim C-News
is already part of the system, but it definitely wasn't included in
any version I've ever gotten. So I compiled C-news (from ports/news/cnews),
then compiled NNTP (from ports/news/nntp), configured for client install,
and then trn was ready to o
Hmmm.. now all I have to do is figure out how to post when my
local machine name as returned by hostname differs from the IP name the
remote news server sees me on....
Ray