Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-20 Thread songbird
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found > the solution thanks to songbird: > > > then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file > > for that group and see if you can then get that message again. > > i think a missing .overview file s

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Charlie Gibbs
Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found the solution thanks to songbird: > then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file > for that group and see if you can then get that message again. > i think a missing .overview file should be regenerated every time

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless that "server read failed" message is a red herring... So I got intereste

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless that "server read failed" message is a red herring... So I got interested and went investigating and I confess t

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread songbird
Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >> Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to >> be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless >> that "server read failed" message is a red herring... >> > >

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-18, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to > be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless > that "server read failed" message is a red herring... > slrn --debug FILE Then look in FILE for possible edification.

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-18 Thread Charlie Gibbs
before and after my problem began. I read the articles at my leisure using slrn, which shouldn't be going anywhere near a server; I have the following lines in .slrnrc: set server_object "spool" set post-object "slrnpull" set use_slrnpull 1 I'm trying to figure ou

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-17 Thread songbird
ever since i started usenet. leafnode > > has a process that goes through and checks consistency and will > > rebuild an overview file for a group but i've never had a problem > > with it truncating contents to zero. > > I was hoping that there was an slrn guru who c

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-17 Thread Charlie Gibbs
roperly. > i'm not at all familiar with slrn's spooling or structure since > i've been using leafnode ever since i started usenet. leafnode > has a process that goes through and checks consistency and will > rebuild an overview file for a group but i've never ha

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-15 Thread songbird
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Running Buster: > Linux cjglap2 4.19.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.235-1 (2022-03-17) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Today when I tried reading Usenet I ran into problems. I use slrnpull > to fetch news from a server - that part still works. When I run slrn t

slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
Running Buster: Linux cjglap2 4.19.0-20-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.235-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux Today when I tried reading Usenet I ran into problems. I use slrnpull to fetch news from a server - that part still works. When I run slrn to read the news, it comes up with the normal list

Re: Can slrn decode MIME messages?

2020-07-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Charlie Gibbs writes: > Is there a way to get slrn to decode MIME messages? I'm > running Stretch on the laptop on which I read Usenet, and > "slrn --version" returns the following: It seems like yes with some work. I found an old patch for "minimal multipart hand

Re: Can slrn decode MIME messages?

2020-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 07 iul 20, 17:11:08, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Not a direct answer to your question, but the etiquette on the lists > is to use plain text only messages wrapped at 80 characters to 72 allows for several levels of quoting without re-wrapping ;) > maximise compatibility with clients - I assume

Re: Can slrn decode MIME messages?

2020-07-07 Thread Borden Rhodes
Not a direct answer to your question, but the etiquette on the lists is to use plain text only messages wrapped at 80 characters to maximise compatibility with clients - I assume because the list forwards the messages using text-only headers. I get digests. Even though I'm reading on modern e-mail

Can slrn decode MIME messages?

2020-07-07 Thread Charlie Gibbs
Due to the high volume of messages in this mailing list, I prefer to read it via the newsgroup linux.debian.user using slrn. This works well for the most part. However, some messages (e.g. ones from Matthew Campbell) are MIME-encoded. I see appropriate headers: Content-Type: text/plain

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
ehavior the same if you >> > fire up slrn in xterm, rxvt, and gnome-terminal? (to pick three >> > wildly different code bases) >> >> Good call, sir! Indeed, when I did the fresh install of Stretch, >> the default terminal run from the panel (exo-open --lau

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-19 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 18/07/18 05:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you fire up s

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you > > fire up slrn i

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-18 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch. I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and irritating) has happened to slrn. All the colours

Re: Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch. > I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and > irritating) has happened to slrn. All the colours have been softened; >

Pastel colours in slrn - why?

2018-07-18 Thread Charlie Gibbs
Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch. I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and irritating) has happened to slrn. All the colours have been softened; it's as if everything has been replaced with pastels. Even white text on a

Re: slrn crash -- froze everything

2007-04-01 Thread s. keeling
Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A couple weeks ago I had a problem while using slrn, with an error > wriitng to file after I tried to exit. The input/output error messages > I got suggested a hard drive problem, but that came to nothing. The > whole thing was discussed

slrn crash -- froze everything

2007-03-30 Thread Tyler Smith
A couple weeks ago I had a problem while using slrn, with an error wriitng to file after I tried to exit. The input/output error messages I got suggested a hard drive problem, but that came to nothing. The whole thing was discussed in another thread here. A few days ago I tried to start slrn with

Re: slrn/unstable, libslang2, unicode?

2006-02-06 Thread Scott
Adam Funk spake thusly on 02/06/2006 06:57 AM: The slrn.sourceforge.net documentation says Unicode support is dependent on Slang 2, and that you can compile late version against that library to get Unicode support. The unstable version of slrn, however, requires libslang2 but does support UTF-8

slrn/unstable, libslang2, unicode?

2006-02-06 Thread Adam Funk
The slrn.sourceforge.net documentation says Unicode support is dependent on Slang 2, and that you can compile late version against that library to get Unicode support. The unstable version of slrn, however, requires libslang2 but does support UTF-8. Anyone know why? $ slrn --version Slrn

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 26 September 2004 2:11 pm, Josef Oswald wrote: > Thanks for the link:-) Yer welcome... I have long been of the opinion that writing a sigmonster is like a jedi crafting his own lightsaber; each is just slightly different just like it's creator , and its a right of passage... I wrote m

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-26 Thread Josef Oswald
Brad Sims wrote on Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:00:15 +0200: > On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote: >> I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for >> random signatures :-) >> > > I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here: > http://home.insightbb.c

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:40:18 -0400 Michael Marsh disseminated the following: > I found that running it in my .cshrc changed my signature often enough for my > tastes, but you could go nuts and set up a cron job that runs every minute if > you really want to (not that I could stop you anyway). I d

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:55:23 +0200, Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: > http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig Here's what I wrote for my own use. It uses a single file of

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote: > I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for > random signatures :-) > I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here: http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Sigfiles/current_sigs.tar.gz http://home.insightbb.

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Josef Oswald
s. keeling wrote on Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:10:06 +0200: > Incoming from Josef Oswald: >> >> looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: >> >> http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig >> >> At the end it s

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Josef Oswald: > > looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: > > http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig > > At the end it says one need to create for each quote a single file, my > question is: > what na

SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-23 Thread Josef Oswald
looking to set up random sig with SLRN I found this link: http://lists.infodrom.org/debian-user-de/2001/03/att-0026/01-slrn-random-sig At the end it says one need to create for each quote a single file, my question is: what name can I use and or does this scrip just take any files it finds and

Re: slrn drawing characters problem in Konsole

2004-04-04 Thread Julius Plenz
* Ken Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-04 13:37]: > I think slrn has problems drawing line-drawing characters in unicode > locales. I don't think this is a Konsole bug. You can use this to replace the arrows by ASCII-Chars: $ grep simulate .slrnrc set simulate_graphic_chars 1

Re: slrn drawing characters problem in Konsole

2004-04-03 Thread Ken Bloom
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 07:20:06 +0200, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Dear People, > > I'm running sarge. I recently noticed (I don't reboot my machine very > often and only discover breakage when I reboot) that the red threading > in slrn was now replaced by red blocks. I'm

slrn drawing characters problem in Konsole

2004-04-03 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm running sarge. I recently noticed (I don't reboot my machine very often and only discover breakage when I reboot) that the red threading in slrn was now replaced by red blocks. I'm not sure what the problem is, but it seems likely the problem was with Konsole and/

Re: Slrn

2003-09-20 Thread Michael C.
In linux.debian.user, Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > > Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so, > > are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts. > > > > I see a lot of

Re: Slrn

2003-09-19 Thread Andy Firman
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:54:55PM -0400, Michael C. wrote: > Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so, > are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts. > > I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that looks > like something that outlook used to d

Slrn

2003-09-19 Thread Michael C.
Does anyone else use slrn to read this list? If so, are ther any suggestions on how to cleanup the posts. I see a lot of lines that end in '=20', and that looks like something that outlook used to do(does?). TIA Michael C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mcsuper5.freeshell.org/ Regist

Re: basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn

2003-01-08 Thread Robert Land
I was used to in other distros). I don't > like the way Debian sets up leafnode at first. It assumes everyone has a dialup > ISP connection. > > OP, Robert Land: > If you would like any help getting it set up (leafnode, slrn). Email me offlist > and I'll help in a

Re: basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn

2003-01-07 Thread Steve
alup ISP connection. OP, Robert Land: If you would like any help getting it set up (leafnode, slrn). Email me offlist and I'll help in anyway I can. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn

2003-01-07 Thread Frederik Ferner
Robert Land wrote: > As having great difficulties in setting up a offline > newsreader system for various users on a debian box > I would grately appreciate some guidance. > Having the replication of a few newsgroups in mind (< 12) > and to install a local newserver apt-cache suggested: > > + le

Re: basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn

2003-01-07 Thread iain d broadfoot
box may access his beloved > newsgroup he has subscribed to. > > Some people recommended to use slrn as I wanted to have > a text based newsreader. To enable offline newsreading > slrnpull.deb might be helpful. > > To my understanding all desired newsgroups that have to > b

basics about nntpservers, slrnpull, slrn

2003-01-07 Thread Robert Land
recommended to use slrn as I wanted to have a text based newsreader. To enable offline newsreading slrnpull.deb might be helpful. To my understanding all desired newsgroups that have to be replicated have to be defined in /var/spool/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf but nothing seems to help me to define

Re: does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Land
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:40:55PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > 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 ne

Re: does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
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 thoug

does slrn host a collection of all newsgroups only temporarly?

2003-01-06 Thread Robert Land
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 th

apt-get install linuxconf, error while processing slrn

2002-12-07 Thread eric lin
Dear Linuxer: I try to apt-get linuxconf, it encounter error end as Errors wre encountered while processing: slrn please help on that also I already have lprng install but when i try to print a file lpr try Get_local_host: hostname 'progeny.linuxspice.com' bad also my apache webserve

Re: slrn + leafnode = heavy load

2002-03-13 Thread Ian Balchin
ind that my > hdd is being continually thrashed when in slrn. This us being used > on a ppp dialup to my isp and so am set to retrieve headers only > when i first dial in, and then a later dialup should retrieve bodies > of selected messages for offline perusal. > > I am subscribed to a do

slrn + leafnode = heavy load

2002-03-10 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I am running a low-spec machine comprising a Cyrix 120 processor, 120 Mb ram, ample hdd and swap space. It is running potatoe in console mode. Having got the setup going with help from this group, i find that my hdd is being continually thrashed when in slrn. This us being used on a ppp

Re: slrn + slrnpull

2002-02-18 Thread Ian Balchin
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:17:46AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no > > way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked > > all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bit

Re: slrn + slrnpull

2002-02-17 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no > way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked > all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday > has evaporated. An install for a dialup offline ne

slrn + slrnpull

2002-02-17 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull for offline mail reading. There is no way that the default installation works even when debconf has asked all the relevant questions. Sorry for the bitch, but a whole Sunday has evaporated. An install for a dialup offline newsreader should be something that the

slrn + leafnode in the same host

2001-12-13 Thread Roberto Diaz
Hi! I am having troubles in my local network.. I was using slrn to read my news the nttp server was configured in another machine (all are debian-potatos) I dont remember to have been done something special and all was working very nicely.. but today I have installed another leafnode for my

{slrn,lynx} under X, xterm-linux.xpm, Woody?

2001-12-01 Thread Shaul Karl
I believe that terminal apps like slrn or lynx are sometimes get the xterm-linux.xpm image when iconifyed. And I refer to apps that were ran from the menu system and not to apps that were started in a terminal command line. (Iconifying an app that was started from an xterm always gets here the

Re: slow slrn download problem

2001-07-01 Thread Joey Hess
Dale Morris wrote: > Since my latest apt-get upgrade and the newer version of > slrn(0.9.7-5), my download of newsgroups has slowed to a crawl. If I > remove the .slrnrc from my home directory, speed goes back to normal. > If I change the setup in the /etc/news/slrn.rc file, th

Re: slow slrn download problem

2001-07-01 Thread Balbir Thomas
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:55:03PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > Since my latest apt-get upgrade and the newer version of > slrn(0.9.7-5), my download of newsgroups has slowed to a crawl. If I > remove the .slrnrc from my home directory, speed goes back to normal. > If I change the setup

slow slrn download problem

2001-07-01 Thread Dale Morris
Since my latest apt-get upgrade and the newer version of slrn(0.9.7-5), my download of newsgroups has slowed to a crawl. If I remove the .slrnrc from my home directory, speed goes back to normal. If I change the setup in the /etc/news/slrn.rc file, the same thing happens. I've done the sl

[slrn] reject_long_lines (was: RPM kaputt :-()

2001-05-19 Thread Matthias Friedrich
Michael Wand wrote: > Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Übrigens, daß sich slrn so um die Usenet-Sitten sorgt, ist ja schön, aber > kann es sein, daß ich eine Message wegen einer läppischen 81-Zeichen- > Zeile ÜBERHAUPT nicht posten kann? ] set reject_long_lines 2

Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?

2001-04-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 09:52:25PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a c

Re: slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?

2001-04-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 21:52, Brian Lavender wrote: > In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a config file I n

slrn newsreader, How do I specify my from address?

2001-04-05 Thread Brian Lavender
In slrn when I post to a newsgroup, it puts my from email address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like it to put it as my real email address which is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a config file I need to modify? brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-06 Thread Glyn Millington
On 06 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Would you mind to write a quick/dirty howto (I used to use leafnode, > which works with gnus, but I want to try slrnpull)? Well I've got it set up with leafnode here, and it works well. To get you started, you need a .gnus file in your home directo

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Glyn Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Just a question to the gnus-people: Can you use gnus to read > > newsgroups offline like I do with slrnpull and slrn --spool? > > You certainly can - it's grea

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-05 Thread Glyn Millington
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just a question to the gnus-people: Can you use gnus to read > newsgroups offline like I do with slrnpull and slrn --spool? You certainly can - it's great! Glyn M -- so here we are then

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:58:07PM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:27, mike polniak wrote: ... > > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. ... > I've never used Pan, so I can't compare either of them with it. I > tried slr

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
mike polniak wrote: > I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. > Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features > and basically is either one worth the effort com

Re: Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread Bud Rogers
On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:27, mike polniak wrote: > I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very > easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. > Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features > and basically is either o

Gnus or Slrn for newsreader?

2001-03-03 Thread mike polniak
I have been using Pan as my newsreader. Its really not bad. Very easy to set up and use the gui.But i plan to try Gnus or Slrn. Any comments about either in terms of ease of setup/use, features and basically is either one worth the effort compared to Pan. -- LINUX~~nobody owns it

Re: printing with SLRN-Solved!

2000-08-15 Thread Dale L . Morris
After thinking about this for a while I realized that I had installed SLRN before I had configured my printer with printtool. So I uninstalled and the reinstalled. Printing seems to work fine now. On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:18:41PM -0700 28, "Dale L . Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

printing with SLRN

2000-08-14 Thread Dale L . Morris
I configured printing in my 2.2 potato version using redhat's printtool. Everything prints fine, messages print from mutt without error, but when I try to print using slrn, I get an error: Printing article...sh: lp: command not found Printer process returned error code 127 I've looked t

Re: Tin or SLRN

2000-08-12 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 07:58:09AM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > > Just used slrn for a short time and was impressed.. I'd like opinions on > > slrn especially from people who have used tin. Is there any gr

Re: Tin or SLRN

2000-08-11 Thread kmself
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 07:58:09AM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > Just used slrn for a short time and was impressed.. I'd like opinions on > slrn especially from people who have used tin. Is there any great advantage > in using tin? Use what works. I started with

Re: Tin or SLRN

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > Just used slrn for a short time and was impressed.. I'd like opinions on > slrn especially from people who have used tin. Is there any great advantage > in using tin?

Tin or SLRN

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
Just used slrn for a short time and was impressed.. I'd like opinions on slrn especially from people who have used tin. Is there any great advantage in usin

Re: mailcap/slrn question

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > > > Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from > > newsgroups in slrn? I can get mutt to display images using ee, but I've > > never

Re: mailcap/slrn question

2000-08-10 Thread Christopher Mosley
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from > newsgroups in slrn? I can get mutt to display images using ee, but I've > never been able to get slrn to display an image in a binary newsgroup. I > always have to

Re: mailcap/slrn question

2000-08-10 Thread Gary Jones
Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from newsgroups in slrn? Have you tried asking in news.software.readers ng? For info on slrn configuration this should really be your first stop - lots of knowledgable people includi

mailcap/slrn question

2000-08-10 Thread Dale Morris
Does anyone have a working mailcap file that will display images from newsgroups in slrn? I can get mutt to display images using ee, but I've never been able to get slrn to display an image in a binary newsgroup. I always have to use Netscape News for binaries and slrn for regular text mes

Re: slrn+NNTP help: SOLVED!

2000-04-12 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
I figured out what the problem was: a couple of years ago I did once try slrn, and used it for a bit. Apparently in my .bashrc I still had a leftover alias from way back then: alias slrn = 'slrn"" -C --spool' Do! -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[E

Re: slrn+NNTP help

2000-04-11 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:13:04PM -0400, John F. Davis wrote: > I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true. > Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp. Nope, didn't help. Thanks for the try. -- Maciej Kalisiak | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.dgp.toron

Re: slrn+NNTP help

2000-04-11 Thread John F. Davis
> I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a > news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a > non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h > SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environm

slrn+NNTP help

2000-04-11 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Hello all, I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment,

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-03-28 Thread Guido Gloede
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Wagnon wrote: --snip-- >I'm trying to set up slrn to use leafnode. Leafnode appears to be >installed okay and I have a list of newsgroup descriptions and all >other things that leafnode/fetchnews seems to set up. However, I >can'

slrn/leafnode timeouts

2000-03-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm currently using fetchnews and slrn and frequently have the NNTP connection timeout while composing longer articles, with the result that slrn decides it can post the article and I have to reload it from slrn-failed-posting.txt. While that works, it's a royal PITA... Looking t

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-02-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/24/00 11:57AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > In your case, with only a single machine involved, putting localhost into > /etc/news/server should work, though I prefer to use the box's own name > instead. Thanks. That's what I ended up doing. I'll try to set it up with my machine name a little late

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-02-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
Mark Wagnon said: > My question is, *what* do I set as my news server when using > leafnode? Do I use localhost? news.smaug.com (my system's domain)? The name of the machine on which leafnode runs. For example, I have slrn and leafnode set up on two machines here, pchan and genma.

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-02-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 02/23/00 06:52PM, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I've just started using tin and leafnode. I'm finding that I need to > use rtin rather than tin, pointed at localhost. > > Hmmm... Ok, just installed slrn: > > slrn -h localhost > > or > > s

Re: slrn and leafnode

2000-02-24 Thread kmself
I've just started using tin and leafnode. I'm finding that I need to use rtin rather than tin, pointed at localhost. Hmmm... Ok, just installed slrn: slrn -h localhost or slrn -h hostname You might want to look under /var/spool/news to see that you actually have groups

slrn and leafnode

2000-02-24 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I'm trying to set up slrn to use leafnode. Leafnode appears to be installed okay and I have a list of newsgroup descriptions and all other things that leafnode/fetchnews seems to set up. However, I can't get slrn to behave. I keep getting this error: Reading startup file

Re: cnews/nntp/slrn Problem

2000-01-28 Thread hawk
> i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. > Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn > hangs with "posting...". check /etc/news/inn.conf Switching to potato, it replaced this file without asking me, and there are two line

cnews/nntp/slrn Problem

2000-01-28 Thread Dennis Schoen
Hi all, i have a problem posting news with the above mentioned Programs. Reading news is no problem, but when i try to post something slrn hangs with "posting...". In my /etc/news/nntp_access: localhost bothpost and slrn outputs on start: [EMAIL PROTECTED

slrn config question

2000-01-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, In slrn, when displaying an article, is it possible to somehow hide the article index mode?? My next question is, I would also like to bind the same keys for moving up/down to move between articles as well as moving up/down within the articles, that is

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:25:12PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote > On 07 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the > > same place. > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep slrn > > ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 th

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the > same place. > > $ dpkg -l | grep slrn > ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) > That's the one I have, which no

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the same place. $ dpkg -l | grep slrn ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:18, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Mo

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > > > can get it temporarily at ... > > > > Er I meant to say at h

slrn and leafnode: connection times out

2000-01-07 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
When I'm using slrn (connected to a local leafnode server) and writing a long article, or otherwise idling for a longish time, slrn appears to drop the nntp connection. If I move to the next article it fails to read it; retrying works fine. More seriously, if I try to post an article it comp

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > > can get it temporarily at ... > > Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb > > > Pann

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > can get it temporarily at ... Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb > Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem. -- see shy jo

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