Thanks Ron I gave up with leafnode after a few days and got slrnpull to work 
straight away.

I've got a hell of a lot to learn, I'm using the total submersion method, 
I've deleted all the M$ stuff and moved over to Linux, it's a steep learning
curve, but I'm getting there 

      
  


On 17 Dec 1999 13:28:17 -0500, Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
>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"
>
>-- 
>These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
>The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
>My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
>


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