Subject: Using Pine News on Local server

From: Robert J Wilshe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:22:01 -0600 (CST)

Hello:

An ISP that I use for USENet tells me that their news spool "resides on a
local volume, not on an nntp server."  They further told me that Pine
looks for mail on an nntp server.  Thus, I have to use trn or tin to read
the news.  And, I not as fond of those as I am of Pine.  :)  Is there a
way to get Pine to look for news spools locally and not remotely?

Thanks for the help!

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From: Matthew Schinckel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 14:07:51 +930

> Hello:

Hi,

> way to get Pine to look for news spools locally and not remotely?

This is listed in the online help (and the FAQ?).

I am not sure myself of the exact syntax, but go into Setup/Config, arrow 
down to the news-collections line, and press ^G.

And read to your hearts content.
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