Subject: to define local usenet spool files to pine

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 12:56:41 GMT

my usual way to get news is via nntp to my providers news server.  in
addition I've setup local usenet for a handfull of news groups. to
workaround the the fact the news item numbers are different for the local
spool version, I chnaged the tin program to look for .lnwsrc as its
subscription file (instead of .newsrc). I dont know if pine uses that file
to determine what articles to display as unread.  I called the new tin ltin
vs tin which is really rtin (nntp). 

what do I need to put into the pine.conf file to have pine see the local
news spool as a news source (/usr/spool/news/...)? And can it be told to
look for .lnwsrc vs .newsrc so both the remote and local servers will
continue to work correctly. 

                                  fuzzy
                                  sysadmin, asarian.org

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From: [email-masked] (The Shrim Dude!)
Date: 20 Mar 1995 00:00:21 GMT

If it is on the localhost, why not tell Pine to open it as a mailfolder,
giving it the path. You can create folder-collections to make this appear
more aesthetic.

In comp.mail.pine, some queer sunspot activity fomented [email-masked] to pen:

 -  my usual way to get news is via nntp to my providers news server.  in
 -  addition I've setup local usenet for a handfull of news groups. to
 -  workaround the the fact the news item numbers are different for the local
 -  spool version, I chnaged the tin program to look for .lnwsrc as its
 -  subscription file (instead of .newsrc). I dont know if pine uses that file
 -  to determine what articles to display as unread.  I called the new tin ltin
 -  vs tin which is really rtin (nntp). 

 -  what do I need to put into the pine.conf file to have pine see the local
 -  news spool as a news source (/usr/spool/news/...)? And can it be told to
 -  look for .lnwsrc vs .newsrc so both the remote and local servers will
 -  continue to work correctly. 

 -                                    fuzzy
 -                                    sysadmin, asarian.org

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