Re: gnus on XP

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Feb 26 2008, notbob wrote:

> notbob wrote:
>> Howdy.  emacs noob, here.
>>
>> I'm occasionally stuck using a suck XP box instead of my beloved Slackware.
>> Being a CLI freak, I d/l'd emacs to use gnus.  But, so far no joy.  I ran
>> runemacs.exe and even addpm.exe.  I also created a C:\.emacs and C:\.gnus
>> file.  In .gnus, I put:
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "us.Usenet-News.net"))

> nntp (news) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
> Couldn't open server on news
>
> IOW, this install is not even promting me for a server like emacs 21 in
> Slackware does.  

The default is to use "news".  (I don't know how it was in Emacs 21
i.e. Gnus 5.9)

Additional to ~/.gnus.el, ...

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "us.usenet-news.net"))

... add this to ~/.authinfo:

   machine us.usenet-news.net login YOUR_NAME force yes

See (info "(gnus)NNTP") for more information on ~/.authinfo.

You may also test using `gnus-group-browse-foreign-server':

B nntp RET us.usenet-news.net RET

Bye, Reiner.
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