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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:42:51 +1030, Stephen Reynolds <spr@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>I'm having trouble starting slrn at the command prompt. I'm can't start
>slrn without the -h option.
>
>slrn tells me that I have to set the NNTPSERVER environment variable to my
>sever name - but I don't know how to do that. It gives an example, but I
>don't understand the example. The example is (csh): setenv NTTPSERVER
>my.news.server
>
>I'm using slrn on a stand alone machine using RedHat Linux 5.2. I'm using
>leafnode so that I can use slrn as an offline newsreader, I think my server
>name should be localhost. That works if I use the following command to
>launch slrn. $slrn -f localhost
>
>Can anybody tell me how to set the environment variable?
>

Try this in your .bash_profile file:

NTTPSERVER=localhost
export NTTPSERVER

or

I find it easier to use a script to start slrn, contains the one line and I call
it news, just type news at a prompt and up comes slrn:

slrn -h news.mindspring.com 

Good luck.

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