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From: dbaker@concorde.neosoft.com (Daniel Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: News over NNTP
Date: 4 Feb 1995 18:39:33 GMT
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services   +1 713 968 5800
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Message-ID: <3h0hl5$5aa@uuneo.neosoft.com>
References: <3gjjtu$b83@news.ais.net> <3grv73$g5s@myrddin.imat.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: concorde.neosoft.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]

Michael Nelson (nelson@seahunt.imat.com) wrote:
: 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.

: 	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.  
Uh... You should of edited the Makefile before you compiled it, and 
changed the paths and stuff... You can still do that, now.



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