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by **Brian Fahrlande** » Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:00:00

A long time ago I began a search for _C_ News, and I thought I found
it on SCO's server somewhere. That was a long time ago. I know I
eventually tossed the _B_news that SCO used to "publish", and used a copy
of Cnews I was given...by somebody, somewhere.

Two Questions:

1. Where can I find a copy of Cnews (compiled only, please...)

2. Has anyone managed to use PIne on such an animal?

Bri

by **Jean-Pierre Radle** » Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:00:00

Brian Fahrlander writes:

> > Brian Fahrlander writes:
> > > Two Questions:
> > > 1. Where can I find a copy of Cnews (compiled only, please...)

> > While Campbell has long since switched to inn, ftp.celestial.com may still
> > have cnews in its directories.

> > > 2. Has anyone managed to use Pine on such an animal?

> > On >which< animal?

> Cnews.

What has Pine got to do with Cnews? Pine is a Mail User Agent, and Cnews
has zero commands that are ever used by non-administrative users.

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by **Jean-Pierre Radle** » Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:00:00

Quote:Brian Fahrlander writes:
> Two Questions:
> 1. Where can I find a copy of Cnews (compiled only, please...)

While Campbell has long since switched to inn, ftp.celestial.com may still
have cnews in its directories.

Quote:> 2. Has anyone managed to use PIne on such an animal?

On >which< animal?

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by **Brian Fahrlande** » Thu, 11 Jan 1996 04:00:00

> Brian Fahrlander writes:
> > Two Questions:
> > 1. Where can I find a copy of Cnews (compiled only, please...)

> While Campbell has long since switched to inn, ftp.celestial.com may still
> have cnews in its directories.

> > 2. Has anyone managed to use Pine on such an animal?

> On >which< animal?

Cnews.

Bri

by **Dan Busar** » Sat, 13 Jan 1996 04:00:00

: Brian Fahrlander writes:

: > Cnews.

: What has Pine got to do with Cnews? Pine is a Mail User Agent, and Cnews
: has zero commands that are ever used by non-administrative users.

He probably means the news reading capability of pine. Why anyone would
want to read news via pine is beyond me, but it does work.

You need an nntp server though, pine won't read a local news spool. Celestial
probably has the nntp-t5 package somewhere near C News.

Dan
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by **Bill Campbe** » Mon, 15 Jan 1996 04:00:00

: Brian Fahrlander writes:

: > Two Questions:
: > 1. Where can I find a copy of Cnews (compiled only, please...)

: While Campbell has long since switched to inn, ftp.celestial.com may still
: have cnews in its directories.

We have cnews only for Xenix (because I switched our news system to
Unix before switching to inn-1.4).

: > 2. Has anyone managed to use PIne on such an animal?

The news transport (cnews, inn, ...) have nothing to do with editors.
Every news READER (tin, nn, ?rn,...) I've seen will allow you your
choice of editors.

Bill
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by **Sam Liddicot** » Tue, 16 Jan 1996 04:00:00

> : Brian Fahrlander writes:
> : > Cnews.

> : What has Pine got to do with Cnews? Pine is a Mail User Agent, and Cnews
> : has zero commands that are ever used by non-administrative users.

> He probably means the news reading capability of pine. Why anyone would
> want to read news via pine is beyond me, but it does work.

> You need an nntp server though, pine won't read a local news spool. Celestial
> probably has the nntp-t5 package somewhere near C News.

Pine will read the local news spool, but it needs an nntp server for posting.

I use Pine with CNews.

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