Subject: Re: Can't Find .newsrc

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 21 Dec 1994 04:06:50 GMT

Comes here Mr. W. Ryan Thomas with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on 20 Dec 1994 19:58:41 GMT:

 +   > How about defining the nntp-server option in the (S)etup/(C)onfig screen?

 +   I'm sorry...but I got in on this thread late.  Could someone please post a
 +   summary of this thread.  I have tried to get pine configured to read my
 +   custom .newsrc file (~/.newsrc) and haven't been able to.

1- First of all make sure you are using version 3.90 and higher...
2- Go to (M)ain/(S)etup/(C)onfig screen. (letters within braces are commands)
3- (A)dd the local newsserver's address as the value for the nntp-server option.
4- Go further down in the same Config screen to set the newsrc-read-order
   option to your preference.
5- (E)xit and (Q)uit out of Pine completely.
6- Start again Pine, go to (L)ist, choose the news collection.....

The rest will be magic...also you can set the intial keystrokes list at the
prompt to something like this as an example...

% pine -I l,n,v,v

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  .][__n_n_|DD[  ====_____  |  __/ riram NCV       | | Temple Univ.  |
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From: [email-masked] (Pete Holsberg)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 18:37:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Wet-Sprocket <[email-masked]> wrote:
=Comes here Mr. W. Ryan Thomas with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on 20 Dec 1994 19:58:41 GMT:
=
= +   > How about defining the nntp-server option in the (S)etup/(C)onfig screen?
=
=3- (A)dd the local newsserver's address as the value for the nntp-server option.
=
=The rest will be magic...

:-) As in "Poof, no news!"? I had to set the nntp-server AND
news-collections, the latter to News *{nntpserver_name/nntp}[] to
get it to work. No other combo works. Why??

Happy New Year.