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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Need help installing cnews/rn on new public system
Keywords: Help! Reward! ASAP! Grin
Message-ID: <1990Mar9.133259.17439@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Mar 90 13:32:59 GMT
References: <1352@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
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In article <1352@babbage.acc.virginia.edu> jeg7e@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (John E. Gefaell) writes:
>how to go about installing it. There are questions in rn's  configure
>program that I don't know how to answer (and the defaults didn't work)
>and when I extract the cnews tar it makes a bunch of directories but
>fails to extract the files. HELP, I am a real quick learner, and if someone

The cnews extraction problem is that you need to specify -o on the tar 
extracting options. 

I compiled and ran rn without any problems.  What questions are you 
having trouble with?


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