Subject: News with Pine 3.95 on Linux problems

From: Plumbum <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:51:34 -0700

Hello.
	I just installed both binary and source distribution of Pine 3.95
on my Linux machine running 1.2.8 and connected to the internet with
ethernet. Neither one of them give me news reader option. Is pine for linux
not supporting news? I look at the misc. docs and FAQ's but couldn't find
an answer. Thanks for your time.
						-- Pb

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From: Jason Englander <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:56:22 -0500 (CDT)

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> an answer. Thanks for your time.

Pine for Linux does support news.  Check your pine setup and make sure that
you have 'nntp-server' set to whatever machine that the newsgroups are
stored on.  If they are stored on your ISP's machine, then this will be
something like news.yourisp.com (ask them to make sure).

If you use INN or something similar to get the news and put it into
/usr/spool/news on your machine, then you can set this to your machine's
name.

If you want to edit your ~/.pinerc directly, this is the option:

# NNTP server for posting news. Also sets news-collections for news reading.
nntp-server=

  Jason

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From: Peter Wyzlic <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Oct 1996 19:00:01 GMT

Plumbum <[email-masked]> wrote:

: 	I just installed both binary and source distribution of Pine 3.95
: on my Linux machine running 1.2.8 and connected to the internet with
: ethernet. Neither one of them give me news reader option. Is pine for linux
: not supporting news? I look at the misc. docs and FAQ's but couldn't find
: an answer. Thanks for your time.

It does support news! Have you put the correct newsserver in your setup?

\bye

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Peter Wyzlic                                          [email-masked]
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