From: bhenning@wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Henning) Subject: Re: Downloading news via modem for reading locally Date: 2 Mar 1993 06:13:44 GMT
In article <9306004.6392@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
>I have installed cnews and nn, and I have been using term. Should I
>get nntpd and do something funky with tredir 119 newsserver:119?
>Should I use uucp instead? Should I just roll my own script using
>kermit or tupload? Has anyone managed to get something like this
>working? Any help would be much appreciated.
I would try a couple of different ways, and use whichever gets you the best
throughput. Personally I am running into some difficulties in getting news...
I followed the instructions in README.linux in /usr/local/lib/news, and
I even (briefly) saw some articles come into /usr/spool/uucp (i.e. news batches)
however they seem to have dissapeared into the bitbucket... when I checked back
I could not find any articles! AARRGGHH! Any hints anyone?
Other minor annoyances:
I am finally able to send e-mail to and from my Linux box via UUCP, except
if I use 'R'eply in elm - the replies get lost both locally, and from the
outside.
I can't get taylor uucp to talk to my modem at 19.2kbps, I guess it's time
to add a 16550A, even though kermit and zmodem keep up with 19.2...
I would appreciate any and all suggestions.
Bill
p.s.
Before I get flamed too badly, which would be the appropriate generic
newsgroup for discussing taylor uucp / cnews / elm / tin / trn / nn
difficulties?
p.p.s.
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