News readers (Re: installing rrn)

[Scott R. Presnell]

karron at MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:

>What is rrn ??

Rn, rrn, trn, trrn, and nn are all usenet network news reading programs.

	I've been able to install rn, trn, and nn basically by just following
instructions given in any of those kits.  For rn and trn, our Iris machines
act as NNTP clients connecting to another host which acts as a news server.
For nn, there is one Iris in the cluster which runs nnmaster, updating a
subject database which is NFS mounted on the other Irises.

	If I were starting from scratch, I'd try getting either nn or trn
from uunet.uu.net (in the "news" directory in the anonymous FTP area of
that host).  The Installation/Configuration kits for those programs pretty
much automate the setup for compilation.  If you're getting your news via
NNTP from a server, you also have to get the nntp software (you'll only be
using the client side).  I haven't had much experience with rn itself, but
we use nn regularly and I've experimented with trn some recently.  My
personal favorite is nn (menu based, fast at the subject scanning level,
good for scanning dense newsgroups), but if most of the people at your site
have used rn in the past, trn (rn which follows discussion threads) is a
natural.

	I am by no means a news guru, but I'd be happy to answer IRIX
related setup questions for these programs if I can.

	- Scott 
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