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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!jove!mikye From: mikye@jove.acs.unt.edu (Myong In Kye) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tin newsreader for FreeBSD? Date: 20 Aug 1995 00:55:31 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 38 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <416163$80n@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <415uk5$8hp@a3bsrv.nai.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jove.acs.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stan Voket (asv@gaboon.nai.net) wrote: > Has the tin newsreader been ported to FreeBSD? > have not seen it at > the FreeBSD ftp sites. Original Tin ftp site: ftp://ftp.scn.de/pub/news/tin/ An example installation of tin 1.3 beta 950726: * FreeBSD requires tin 1.3 beta 950726 (as of 8/19/95) 1) Unpack tin 1.3 beta 950726 gunzip, untar % gunzip tin1.3beta-950726.tar.gz % tar -xvf tin1.3beta-950726.tar 2) 'make' will show compile info. (this is just an informational step.) 3) Go to source directory % cd src 4) Edit Makefile in ./src directory #YACC = bison ... YACC = yacc Accept all others as default. 5) Compile % make bsd 6) Install Tin: % make install 7) Tin setup: create the following files. /etc/inews_mail_gateway file: xxx.yyy.zzz (for example, your slip/ppp-gateway) /etc/nntpserver file: news.yyy.zzz (or your news server: nntp server) Regards, -- MyongIn Kye Univ. of North Texas mikye@jove.acs.unt.edu