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From: sdy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dalek Killer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: novice Gnews questions
Keywords: Gnews, nntp, gnu
Message-ID: <1075@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 00:42:43 GMT
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Organization: Ringworld
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Ok thanks to the kind ftp spirits at osu-cis I've snarfed a copy of Gnews to
try and implement on my account -- only I don't think we have nntp -- whatever
that is, we're running the spooled version of news (B2.11). Ok so I tried using
the code in gnewspool.el like the header says but no go -- no .gnewsrc is
generated and it still trys (and fails) to access my local nntp site (I used
our machine name there).  But it does leave me with a Gnews buffer and a
running process that needs to be killed when you exit emacs.

So the questions are: 
   Does anyone have a (relatively) short tutorial on how to set up Gnews? 
   Has anyone ever gotten the spooled version to work? 
   What is nntp and where can I take a look at the descriptions?
   Where are the Gnu Emacs Lisp manuals/hints/pseudo-documents?
   What ever happened to baby Jane?

I do have better than reading knowledge of lisp, however I have a much harder
time following the intended structure of Emacs than the code itself.

Thank you for Your support

steve
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