Subject: Re: Pine and Local News Spooling

From: [email-masked]
Date: 7 Feb 1997 21:31:31 GMT

[email-masked] wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I use pine 3.93 in linux 2.0.21 (slackware 96) and i have instaled pnews
I'm using 3.95 on 2.0.0 based homebrew (originally SLS 1.02)

> and suck, with these two programs i can build a local news spool, i have
Same

> managed to read and post news using tin in local mode (no -r option). But
Yup.

> i seem to be unaible to read news with pine... I think i have tried
> anything... Please help..
Ok, I can't read the news direct either, for some strange reason pine
seems to be assuming that the home directory of user 'ftp' is the
News directory (weird!) 

But I _can_ read news if I startup an IMAPd and make the news directory
'News *{localhost}[]' 

Problem is I can't post anything yet from pine ... 
I don't think its even looking for inews :-(

-- 
Rob.                           (Robert de Bath <[email-masked]>)
       (Bugs crawl under doors.  Programs crawl under Windows...)

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 6 Feb 1997 13:21:15 GMT

Hi:

Gustavo A.S.R. Felisberto AKA Humpback
[email-masked] / EU at IRC
http://www.ci.uc.pt/~humpback

"They are not men, walking in the streets below"

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From: Cyber-Babushka <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:15:38 -0500

>anything... Please help..

This is why I claim this information should be in the tech-notes, and the
FAQ.

I had the same problem.  The answer can be found in the context-sensitive
help in Pine.  In Setup/Config/news-collections, type '?' and you will
find out that to access the local spool, you need to type '*[]' on the
news-collections line.

Also in Setup/Config, way down toward the bottom of all the stuff you can
configure, make sure that news-spool-dir points at your news spool (mine,
for example, says '/var/spool/news').  I believe the default is
/usr/spool/news.  Also make sure to fill in the path for your news active
file.

I use pnews and suck to build my news spool, and it works just fine with
Pine - now that I know how to tell it where the news spool is!

bonni
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