Re: Setting reading news-server

In article <SQFkf.247$kt5.46573@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lew Pitcher
<lpitcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The following question is for Mac OS X BSD UNIX, but I figure the answe is
> > similar to that of Linux:
> >
> > I want to use emacs21 from Fink on a Mac OS 10.4.3 to read Usenet new.
>
> So, if I may ask a dumb question, what does this have to do with
> comp.os.linux.X? Is there an X windowing system question here?

Sorry, this was a mistake: I once had an X Window question posted to
comp.unix.questions, and was recommended posting here (leading to
'uxterm'); I then kept the newsgroup, and forgot about the .x. Sorry for
the inconvenience. Even though emacs21 is running X Window...

> > Then Emacs needs to get hold of an (external) news-server to read from,
> > and I gather it just checks for some standard BSD UNIX utilities. But how
> > do I set up this BSD UNIX so that it know which news-server to address?
>
> - From the info file, it looks like you have to put the name or IP address of
> your news server into the text file /etc/nntpserver

Thank you.

> This looks like a /global/ setting, so be carefull

On Mac OS X, which runs FreeBSD, it is not present -- I figure some such
stuff has been disabled by Apple. But it gave me an idea what to search
for.

--
Hans Aberg
.

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