On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:58:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install news reader on my computer. > I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and > answer while offline.
> What do I need ? Cnews ? There are two different ways of doing it. One is the "Windows" approach where you have one program which downloads the news and provides a reader interface for it. You get this in, for example Free Agent (which I heard will run under Wine, but don't quote me on that) under Windows. There are some Linux newsreaders that support this mode - the only one I can name for you is Gnus, which is built into the different Emacs variants (run "M-x gnus" or select it from the menus). The more traditional Unix method is to have a seperate news server and news reader. This gives you a much better range of readers to play about with, and can be more flexible. The reader bit is simple - point your news reader at the local machine and everything should work (this is probably the default). If you're simply pulling news from one upstream site then there is a news server called leafnode (avalible as a package) which is designed for this and should be pretty much hassle free. If you have more complex needs, or feel more adventurous, you can use a news server like inn or cnews together with a seperate program like suck or newsx to download and upload the news. > Is there any good documentation about it ? I didn't found any HOWTO or things > like that about it There was a News HOWTO way back when when the world was young, but nobody was maintaining it so it died a death. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
