Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!decvax!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!vijit!madsen From: madsen@vijit.UUCP (Dave Madsen) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Can any kind soul tell me how to get vn working? Message-ID: <133@root.UUCP> Date: 28 Feb 88 02:53:43 GMT References: <751@grand.step.dwr.com> Organization: Wang Labs, Oakbrook, IL Lines: 18 From article <751@grand.step.dwr.com>, by arnie@step.dwr.com (Arnie Listhaus): : From article <701@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, by schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen the Greatest): :: I just compiled the version of vn I got from comp.sources.unix :: Every time I runs it, it says, "No news". Seems that it is not :: connecting to the server or something... Anything I did wrong? : : I am not sure why, but if you have an 'options' line at the top : of your .newsrc file, vn will report "No News". If you remove : it vn will work just fine. Uh oh! I have an options line in my .newsrc and my version ("8/87 res1.0") of vn seems to be working fine. Dave Madsen ---dcm ihnp4!vijit!madsen or vijit!madsen@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (ie, gargoyle.uchicago.edu!vijit!madsen)