[comp.sys.next] Running rn on NeXT

sfrank@orion.oac.uci.edu (Steven Frank) (12/11/90)

I have compiled rn on my NeXT.  How can I run the program on my 
local machine without setting up other processes to download the news
groups onto a spool on my disk?

For example, in the NeXT News application written by William Shipley,
he writes in his README file:

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To run, type

        News -NewsHost <nntp_machine_name>

where <nntp_machine_name> is the internet name or number of a machine
which runs NNTP.

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There is a machine at my university that runs NNTP.  How can I get
rn to use that machine in the way the Shipley's app uses it?

steve@fisher.bio.uci.edu

wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) (12/11/90)

You want to run rrn, not rn.  rrn uses NNTP, rn uses locally spooled files.

(In the best of all possible worlds, the next release of News will support
both, invisibly.)

Set the shell variable NNTPHOST in your .cshrc to be the machine that has
NNTP, and you'll be set for either News or rrn.

-w