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From: nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
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Subject: Re: Welcome to gnu.emacs.gnews!
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Date: 16 Jun 89 21:55:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: olasov@heathcliff (Benjamin Olasov)

In article <6366@columbia.edu>, olasov@heathcliff (Benjamin Olasov) writes:
|A good way to start out might to give a simple introductory discussion
|of the proceedure for using Gnews, for those who haven't had the
|opportunity to see any docs on it.
|
|Are there docs on Gnews?  If so, how does one get them?

The documentation comes with Gnews in the file named =MANUAL.  If you
do not have Gnews 2.0, you should get it via anonymous ftp to
ucbvax.berkeley.edu.  The manual can be formatted for both
installation in the standard info hierarchy using the
gnews-texinfo-info or into the TeX manual using gnews-texinfo-tex.
Simply load gnews normally (see below if this is unclear), load in
=MANUAL, and type M-x gnews-texinfo-info -or- M-x gnews-texinfo-tex to
produce a manual.

To start Gnews, it depends on how it was installed at your site.
Here, I installed the gnews files in the subdirectory LIB/lisp/gnews
where LIB is the emacs library directory.  The site customizations go
into gnews/gnews-site.el.  It also contains patches.  The last thing
this file does is load Init.  I then just tell users to add the
following to their .emacs (it could be added to site-init.el instead):

(autoload 'Gnews "gnews/gnews-site" "Usenet newsreader" t)

Then, when you type M-x Gnews, you will be in Gnews simple as pie.  By
default it looks much like rn, so the novice user should be able to
adapt to it rather quickly.

That should be enough to get started.  Please let me know if I can be
of more specific help.

Mark Nagel @ UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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