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23rd February 19:19
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Hi,
I downloaded Lynx 2.8.2 from http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/wlynx/lynx_w32.2.8.2rel.1.zip . It seems to work properly on Windows in a Dos window for the web, gopher, ftp and so on, and I can read messages using nntp://host  ort/newsgroup. However, when I try to post a message with newspost://news.numericable.fr:119/fr.test , after having filled the required fields, including the message body, I get a "Alert!: 441 article has no body -- just headers"; and something more afterwards I cannot read (displayed too fast) and finally no message is posted. Worse, I didn't understand how to handle properly lynx.cfg (and the link pointing to the explanation about this file is broken all I could find is http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/lynx2-8-5/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html ), so any help would be more than welcome. Also, I wonder if there's another newsreader available for Dos. AFAIK, Arachne ( http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ ) doesn't support netnews yet, but if there's another option, preferably free, I'd pleased to learn about. TIA. PS: Crosspost to news:alt.os.free-dos , news:news.software.newsreaders , copy and fu2 news:comp.os.msdos.mail-news |
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23rd February 19:19
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Post your question to news.software.readers
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23rd February 19:19
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Do you mean for *real* DOS or, as in your test, for in a 'DOS window'
under (MS-)Windows? Since you crossposted to alt.os.free-dos, I assume the former. If so, have a look at YARN. YARN is a SOUP-based off-line reader, so you need a 'SOUPer', a program which gets and sends SOUP packets from/to a News server. I have no pointers for the latter. If you want a newsreader for a 'DOS window' under (MS-)Windows, then have a look at slrn and tin (see my User-Agent header). For all newsreaders, see *the* newsreaders site, NewsReaders (<http://www.newsreaders.com>). It's news.software.readers, not news.software.newsreaders. I have corrected that. And I've ignored the Followup-To: because comp.os.msdos.mail-news is a very low volume group and *the* newsreaders group, also/'even' for DOS is news.software.newsreaders. |
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23rd February 19:19
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Here in comp.os.msdos.mail-news,
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> spake unto us, saying: I'm not sure that a DOS version of Souper exists, but Yarn can be made to work with UKA_PPP. -- -Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA OS/2 + eCS + Linux + Win95 + DOS + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it! The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. |
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23rd February 19:19
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
It's been awhile since I did news with Lynx.
I set the news server in lynx.cfg (NNTPSERVER=) then nntp:// by itself to get a list of groups (I was trying to get to alt.test directly but found out it didn't exist so via the list I found misc.test). I selected to post a message and vim (my editor) came up with headers filled in, went to the bottom and entered in some text. Saved and posted. Few minutes later I checked back with Lynx and the message was there. Don't know if the problem has to do with the editor and its saving of the message in a temp directory or something else. It's been awhile. That said, I'm not in DOS but WinXP. My DOS Internet days got severely sidetracked with the loss of my DOS-only machine awhile back. Check the URL below for some other DOS-based newsreaders. Back in the day I used to use Minuet and Nettamer but really it's been a long time. -- Marc D. Williams http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000 http://www.geocities.com/wilmarcdw/ -- Win3.x Makeover |
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23rd February 19:19
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
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Stegozor <stegozor@removethis.altern.org.invalid> espoused: There's an example .cfg file here: http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx2-8-5/lynx.cfg It's very well commented, so you should be able to make some sense of it. Here you can find an online man page for lynx: http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=ManPage&sec=1&page=lynx It's a bit cryptic, and not all the options will be dos relevant, but it should help. -- | Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk | The seven year itch comes from fooling around during the fourth, fifth, and sixth years. |
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24th February 11:12
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Well, I made some progress with Lynx: If you're using a Dos window in
Windows, you should get the following version which has an _installer_: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.jp/lynx-win32-pata/19739/Lynx286dev17TH.exe It worked quite fine (including newsgroup posting) and that without having to configure the lynx.cfg file. More information at: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel/4326/focus=4351 The debian package downloaded from usual Ubuntu GNU/Linux repositories also worked quite fine. I couldn't test pure DOS version so far, but this will come sooner or later as well, especially now that FreeDos 1.0 has been released  Thanks to all who have replied. |
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10th February 14:04
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Post your question to news.software.readers
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10th February 14:04
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Do you mean for *real* DOS or, as in your test, for in a 'DOS window'
under (MS-)Windows? Since you crossposted to alt.os.free-dos, I assume the former. If so, have a look at YARN. YARN is a SOUP-based off-line reader, so you need a 'SOUPer', a program which gets and sends SOUP packets from/to a News server. I have no pointers for the latter. If you want a newsreader for a 'DOS window' under (MS-)Windows, then have a look at slrn and tin (see my User-Agent header). For all newsreaders, see *the* newsreaders site, NewsReaders (<http://www.newsreaders.com>). It's news.software.readers, not news.software.newsreaders. I have corrected that. And I've ignored the Followup-To: because comp.os.msdos.mail-news is a very low volume group and *the* newsreaders group, also/'even' for DOS is news.software.newsreaders. |
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10th February 14:04
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How to use Lynx to access USENET with Dos or Windows?
Here in comp.os.msdos.mail-news,
Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> spake unto us, saying: I'm not sure that a DOS version of Souper exists, but Yarn can be made to work with UKA_PPP. -- -Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA OS/2 + eCS + Linux + Win95 + DOS + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it! The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. |
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