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 ef

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

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) ;; S

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 ge