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by **Eric Potte** » Mon, 16 Sep 1996 04:00:00

I have been using Knews for a while now, and I have it pretty well
configured, except I can't figure out how to post news. I got an
editor (emacs for now) to come up when I press the 'post' button,
but how do I actually send the posting to the newsgroup? The man
page doesn't seem to be much help. Thanks.

by **da..** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>I have been using Knews for a while now, and I have it pretty well
>configured, except I can't figure out how to post news. I got an
>editor (emacs for now) to come up when I press the 'post' button,
>but how do I actually send the posting to the newsgroup? The man
>page doesn't seem to be much help. Thanks.

Eric, Ive been using knews now for a while and believe me its
a good choice you have made :)
To post you need as you say to get the default editor
up. You then type in your message and save the
file as you would with a normal text file. This should bring up
a secondary confirmation box to which you reply ok. The file
is then pushed out to /var/spool/news/out.going or similar effectively
waiting to be fed to your newsfeed. I use a small usenet transport
agent called leafnode and a utility called 'fetch' to complete this
task for me.

and broken dreams, it is still http://daveshak.demon.co.uk
a beautiful world. Be careful.
Strive to be happy.
**********************

by **Remi Guyomar** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

Quote:> I have been using Knews for a while now, and I have it pretty well
> configured, except I can't figure out how to post news. I got an
> editor (emacs for now) to come up when I press the 'post' button,
> but how do I actually send the posting to the newsgroup? The man
> page doesn't seem to be much help. Thanks.

I think you should quit emacs to get the post dialog box. Since
loading/exting emacs or Xemacs can be slow, you could use gnuclient
and configure your emacs to be a server. This is how I use Xemacs as
my prefered editor with Knews. Here's what you need in you .emacs to
start the emacs server :
-------------------------------------------
;; that's all !
(gnuserv-start)
-------------------------------------------

And put this in you Knews app-defaults file (in
/usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults/Knews for me) :

-------------------------------------------
! This is the command used to edit articles to be posted.
! %s is the filename, %i is the line number where editing starts;
! they are both optional.
!
!Knews.editCommand: xterm -e $EDITOR +%i %s
!Knews.editCommand: xemacs +%i %s
Knews.editCommand: gnuclient +%i %s
!Knews.editCommand: xterm -e vi +%i %s
-------------------------------------------

(you could also set the $EDITOR environment variable to 'gnuclient')

With this setup, launching gnuclient is nearly instantaneous on my
DX4/100.
--
Remi Guyomarch
Montargis, FRANCE

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