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From: bergman@odin.m2c.org (Michael Bergman)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: RNEWS in networked system
Keywords: rnews
Message-ID: <4709@m2c.M2C.ORG>
Date: 31 Mar 89 21:31:20 GMT
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We have a bunch of microvaxen/vaxstations running off a fullscale Vax.  
The Vax is where the news is.  When I run gnuemacs on the Vax, it reads news just fine (except that it thinks I've never looked at any of the messages)  When I run it from one of the workstations, it tells me "no news is good news" --obviously not finding the news path, which is not surprising, since its not mounted on the workstation.  Obviously (well, fairly obviously) I could mount the news directory somewhere and tell emacs that news is there instead of the usual place, and I'm fairly confident I could



 figure out how to get rnews to cooperate without to much trouble.  But I suspect that this would mess up our mailer, which I believe counts on that directory being private to each machine, and I'm curious as to whether there's a way to tell rnews to go out on the net to get the news from the other machine, the way xrn and rn do.  Any bright ideas out there?


--mike bergman

bergman@m2c.org