On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:25:30 +0000, Steve wrote:
>I've asked around in the usenet groups and have had some
>help, but not enough to get the thing working.
>
>I need an off-line newsreader, and will go with leafnode and
>slrn if I can get them to work.
>
>What I think I need is a copy of someone else's slrn.rc
>preferably with comments so that I know what's going on.

You should read the README that comes with slrnpull.  It seems
pretty comprehensive.  Here's what it says you need in your 
.slrnrc, assuming you've gotten slrnpull working:

|Assume that the SLRNPULL_ROOT refers to the directory
|/var/spool/slrnpull.  Then the following .slrnrc lines should be
|sufficient to tell slrn how to deal with the news provided by
|slrnpull:
|
|    set spool_inn_root          "/var/spool/slrnpull"
|    set spool_root              "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
|    set spool_nov_root          "/var/spool/slrnpull/news"
|    set read_active             1
|    set use_slrnpull            1
|
|The 'use_slrnpull' variable must be set to 1 to tell slrn to post the
|file to the out.going directory.  Also note that 'spool_root' and
|'spool_nov_root' must be set to the same value.
|
|In addition, it is a good idea to include the `hostname' and
|`username' lines, e.g.,
|
|    hostname                    "your.host.name"
|    username                    "your.user.name"

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