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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!nbn!miwok!myrddin.imat.com!seahunt.imat.com!nelson From: nelson@seahunt.imat.com (Michael Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: News over NNTP Date: 3 Feb 1995 01:00:19 GMT Organization: Imagine That Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3grv73$g5s@myrddin.imat.com> References: <3gjjtu$b83@news.ais.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: seahunt.imat.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daniel Leeds (dleeds@eagle.ais.net) wrote: -> I tried installing two newsreaders today, both TIN and TRN. Each -> compiles fine, connects to my newserver, and reads news great. -> However, neither will post news. How can I do this?? Tin flashes an -> error message so fast you cant see it for the life of you. On my system, tin was doing that when I tried to post too. I just kept retrying until I saw that it was trying to use "/usr/ucb/vi" as the editor to edit the post with. Naturally, it wasn't there. Tin is supposed to read the "VISUAL" environment variable to decide what editor to use. I _do_ have the VISUAL environment variable set and can see it in the environment, but it seems not to get passed to tin when tin starts up. I normally use "jed" as my editor, so I solved the problem by creating the "/usr/ucb" directory and creating a link there to /usr/local/bin/jed: mkdir /usr/ucb cd /usr/ucb ln -s /usr/local/bin/jed vi Now it works fine. Not a GOOD solution, but it _did_ fix the problem for me. - Michael - -- Michael Nelson nelson@seahunt.imat.com San Francisco, CA http://www.imat.com/consult.html VOICE: 1-415-621-2608