On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 14:49:09 +0100, Robert Land wrote: > I'm new to slrn and did a apt-get install a few weeks ago. I'm not that > sure anymore but I thought apt-get had prompted for a valid news server > while being in installation mode. > Addionaly I also thought slrn had pulled all newsgroups from the prompted > newsserver (at least I have this warning about 'it could take a few > minutes' in my mind). > > After this installation I didn't bother about this programm - up to today > - realizing there was no .newsrc or .jnewsrc on my disk.
It asks whether to fetch the newsgroup descriptions (not their content - that takes quite a bit longer than a few minutes) which it caches in /var/lib/slrn/newsgroups.dsc . HTH, Ray -- "Perhaps they spent some of the time writing the patent application. That task was surely harder than thinking of the technique." RMS on Amazon's 1-Click(R) patent, http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=13652 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]