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Subject: Re: trouble installing
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Date: 1 Feb 90 15:43:06 GMT
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In-reply-to: chris@Cayman.COM's message of 28 Jan 90 18:13:56 GMT

In article <9001281813.AA08804@galapagos.> chris@Cayman.COM (Chris North) writes:


   Hi,

   I have not gotten very far installing gnus and I am not much of a lisp person
   so perhaps you could give me a nudge.  When I do  make in the gnus directory,
   it fails trying to find the "nntp" file.  Is this supposed to be a lisp
   file or is the nntp directory?

   Thanks in advance!

   -chris

You might find this useful.  nntp.el is a lisp file it is looking for.

Posted: Mon Jan 16 18:05:32 1989
Organization: University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
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Thanks to all who helped me get Gnus up and running.  Here is what I did:
Caveat:  I have only done this with Emacs 18.51 and Gnus 3.10

    - byte-compiled all the files in the proper order (can't remember the
      exact order)

	- added the following lines to my .emacs file
(setq gnus-nntp-service nil)
(setq gnus-nntp-server "unh")
(autoload 'gnus "gnus" "Read network news." t)
(autoload 'gnus-post-news "gnus" "Post a news" t)
(autoload 'nntp "nntp" "NNTP service" t)

    - The variables "gnus-nntp-service and "gnus-nntp-server" were the key.
      I had set the gnus-nntp-service to nil but had set the server
      to ":/usr/spool/mail"   thinking it looked there for news.  Well,
      that doesn't work.  When it goes to read the actives file, everything
      just hangs.


  I have settled on Gnus because I do not have Gnews to try out.  I may
get it at some time to try out, but from a recent posting, I hear it is slow.
I am beginning to like Gnus better than vnews with the saving of articles
in files the same name as the group in an automagic fashion .  I also like
the previewing of the subjects.

  I thank the author of Gnus for the tidbit about the server.  Now I
have to get this baby running on my Sun Workstation!!

  I can't wait until Gnus 3.11 with the texinfo manual comes out.  Doing
a help within Gnus took a looooong time.  Once done, I snagged into a
buffer and printed it out.
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