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Article #417Re: Proposed changes to SNews to permit operation over a LAN
From: Terrance Richard Boyes
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:00
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (tex@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk) wrote:
> SNews *always* uses SNEWS.RC. Moreover, since her "version" of SNEWS.RC
> would also be used by her if she was reading news on *my* machine, certain
> paths therein are not correct when referenced remotely (e.g. the directory
> for queueing outgoing "posts" to mail2news), although this can be fixed with
> a separate version of "her" SNEWS.RC file.
You could also get round it by using subst (IIRC). So on the machine holding
the news, say on C: you'd have a
SUBST N: C:
all .RC entries would refer to N: rather than C:
on the remote machine either use SUBST again or just mount the "server" as N:
Of course having seperate user specific .RC files and some of the other
changes you've mentioned are more flexible...
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