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From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: inews not found
Date: 25 Jun 1997 22:59:46 GMT
Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France
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In article <5orrpt$ejg@news-central.tiac.net>,
Tom Legg <tjlegg@max.tiac.net> wrote:
>My ISP just brought up a new shell machine using FreeBSD 2.2.2 While
>trying to post followups with trn, I get the response "inews not
>found". I found the man page for it on the machine but nothing else.
>And I could find no mention of it on the freebsd website. Any help in
>solving this problem will be greatly appreciated. I don't want to be
>stuck only being able to post to Usenet from work.

If they don't have a configured inews anywhere, you can get the Lynx
distribution and compile the inews that comes with it.

It's at http://lynx.browser.org.


	Roger
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