Subject: calling PINE with a specific news group?

From: [email-masked] (Jim Gerland)
Date: 17 Mar 1995 17:27:53 GMT

What is the syntax (if it's possible) to invoke PINE and have it
go directly into a specific news group?

To get to a particular mail folder I can use: pine -f name-of-folder
but how would I do: pine -f name-of-news-group
Thanks,
Jim...

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From: [email-masked] (The Shrim Dude!)
Date: 19 Mar 1995 23:28:57 GMT

In comp.mail.pine, some queer sunspot activity fomented Jim Gerland to pen:

 -  What is the syntax (if it's possible) to invoke PINE and have it
 -  go directly into a specific news group?

 -  To get to a particular mail folder I can use: pine -f name-of-folder
 -  but how would I do: pine -f name-of-news-group

pine -f "*{netnews.server.address/nntp}comp.mail.pine"

Replace netnews.server.address with the address of your newsserver
(nntp-server) and also the specifc newsgroup name...and then....
Bingo!

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