LARS@acc.ARPA (Lars Poulsen) (05/29/85)
Here at ACC, we do not run UUCP at all; we do not have the USENET
news software. We do however have a news system, which we feed
from ARPAnet mailing lists. We also have EUNICE, and so we
thought we could install RN and get it to read our news files.
So far this has been a total failure, and the documentation
that comes with RN is not sufficient to allow us to figure out
how to do this ...
Our news system has the following structure (which I believe
is modeled after the "real" news system:
/usr/news - root of the news files
/usr/news/<groupname> - contains all articles of
group <groupname>
/usr/news/<groupname>/1 - first article ever posted
/usr/news/<groupname>/999 - article number 999
/usr/news/<groupname>/bounds - number of first and last article
currently available
~/.newsrc - user's current status
for each newsgroup a line with
its name and the news article to read,
separated by space.
Can somebody either tell me the answers or give me
a pointer to documentation that will answer these questions:
(1) Who maintains or distributes "inews" ?
(2) What additional files do I need, and how do
I find out what their format ?
/ Lars Poulsen
<Lars@ACC.ARPA>
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