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From: mpulliam
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:00

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:18:23 GMT, 
David. E. Goble <goble@gtech> wrote:
>>... I tried setting up slrn, but it 
keeps saying it can not find a
>>hostname or that I need to setenv 
NNTPSERVER environment variable.

go like this:

export NNTPSERVER=your.news.server

in your bash shell before you start
slrn in that same shell. The error message
I think tells you what it wants you to do
in csh not bash so if you want to copy
their format go csh first (to get you into
the c shell) then give their command instead.
(setenv NNTPSERVER your.news.server, without
the = sign). I usually use the bash form.

There are a couple different places you
can store this command, but if you like
changing news servers from time to time 
it's handy to just tell it the server you
want when you call up slrn.

MP

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From: mpulliam@machine.linux (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: help setting up newsreader...
Date: 2000/10/13
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