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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: help with sys file
Message-ID: <1991May23.221143.8781@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991May19.014130.25630@unixland.uucp> <1991May19.023101.29200@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 23 May 91 22:11:43 GMT

In article <1991May19.023101.29200@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>
>We have three separate misunderstandings here.  First, you need a "/all" on
>the end of the second field in the "downstream" line.  Second, there can
>be only one slash in that field; your "mainfeed" line is nonsense.  Third,
>"local" is not a magic word to C News.
>
>Please read news(5) instead of trying to wing it.

Thanks for setting me straight.  The reason I was "trying to wing it"
as you say, is that I don't have a good way to read the troff-format
documentation.  Those of use running on systems without text processing
packages have a real time of it when it comes to decyphering formatting
characters and text from these documents.  Sure, I could hand-carry (or
mail) the stuff to work, and print it there, but that'd be unethical :-)

You guys did well by putting lots of documentation with CNEWS, but 
unfortunately not all of us have the appropriate facilities for reading
it.


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