Re: Reading news with Emacs

1996-10-15 Thread Dominik Kubla 

Johann Spies wrote:
> After a few weeks trying out Linux I decided to downloaded Emacs and sofar I 
> am impressed with Emacs.  
> 
> I have not succeeded in getting Emacs Gnus to read news, however.  I did put 
> export NNTPSERVER=news.ilink.nis.za in my .bashrc file but it did not have 
> any effect on gnus' behavior
> 
> I get the following error message: 
> Johann (My computer name) open error:''. Continue?

As written in the bash manual: .bashrc is only loaded by non-login shells,
put the following at the top of your .bash_profile to get it read in login
shells as well:

  test -r $HOME/.bashrc && source $HOME/.bashrc

That change was introduced in version 1.12 or 1.13.

Dominik Kubla
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Re: Reading news with Emacs

1996-10-15 Thread Vatiainen Heikki 
Hello,

As other people have already answered to the Gnus problem, I would like to 
give you some pointers to the Gnus-related documentation.

The Gnus home page is http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/ding.html and the Gnus FAQ 
can be found from http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html. The FAQ can 
also be reached from the main Gnus page.

// Heikki


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Re: Reading news with Emacs

1996-10-14 Thread Rob Browning 

Here's an example of part of my setup.  Yours should be similar:

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "newshost.cc.utexas.edu"))
(setq gnus-asynchronous t)
(setq gnus-subscribe-newsgroup-method 'gnus-subscribe-zombies)
(setq gnus-check-new-newsgroups 'ask-server)
(setq gnus-save-newsrc-file nil)

;; So the server will accept me
(setq gnus-local-domain "cs.utexas.edu")

;; So the from field will be reasonable.
(setq gnus-user-from-line "Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>")
(setq user-mail-address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
(setq gnus-local-organization "The University of Texas at Austin")

You might have to delete your existing ~/.newsrc.eld file if things
still don't work.  Sometime in the past I had Gnus get confused when
it had saved bad info to the file as a result of a misconfiguration on
my part.

Hope this helps.  I have long mini-HOWTO about using Gnus, in all it's
glory, for mail and news.  I'm going to try to set up a web page soon,
and put the file there.

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Rob

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Reading news with Emacs

1996-10-14 Thread Johann Spies 
Hi,

After a few weeks trying out Linux I decided to downloaded Emacs and sofar I am 
impressed with Emacs.  

I have not succeeded in getting Emacs Gnus to read news, however.  I did put 
export NNTPSERVER=news.ilink.nis.za in my .bashrc file but it did not have any 
effect on gnus' behavior

I get the following error message: 
Johann (My computer name) open error:''. Continue?

If I answer yes then the following message appear: 
Auto-save file exists. Read it?

After that  "no news is horrible news" in the minibuffer and on the status bar 
"Gnus: *Group* {nntp:Johann}

I do not understand the documentation in this regard.  It talks about a 
DOMAINNAME - variable but I do not read where I can find or change this 
variable.

Can somebody help, please?

Thank you to everyone who patiently answered my questions on LaTeX and smail.


Johann Spies
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