Subject: VMS Newsreading.

From: Doctor Johassen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 00:31:09 -0700

I'm trying to set the nntp server on a VMS installation of pine (on sol.yorku.ca) and it 
keeps telling me in the folder list that there's no such host.  Now I know that this is 
an active news host because I can use it from other sites on the yorku.ca domain.  I 
also know that Sol can connect to the host because when I try to telnet there, the 
connection completes before it is refused.  Now I know that VMS has some conventions 
about naming external address, such as prefixing email addresses with in%", etc.  Is 
there some convention like this at work here?  Do I need {} brackets around something?  
do I need to change the collection location?  I'm running out of ideas. . . 

Thanks,

Eric
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From: "Alan J. Flavell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:51:51 GMT

On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Doctor Johassen wrote:

> I'm trying to set the nntp server on a VMS installation of pine

Well, I have Yehavi's port of PINE for VMS set up at Glasgow, and
here's how the config looks for the news server, when I'm in the
configuration dialog:

news-collections       = <No Value Set: using *{nntp-server.gla.ac.uk/nntp}[]>

My .PINERC file contains this line:

nntp-server=nntp-server.gla.ac.uk

and this:

news-collections=

does that help?

(Of course you can't use that particular server yourself, but that's 
the principle).

best regards

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