Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!steve From: steve@utzoo.UUCP (Steve Smith) Newsgroups: micros Subject: Subscribing to newsgroups Message-ID: <7431@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 16:24:52 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.7431 Posted: Thu Dec 18 16:24:52 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Dec-86 16:24:52 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 89 Subscribing to micros (or any other newsgroup for that matter) ============================================================== Hiding in your home directory is a file named .newsrc (if you don't believe me try: % ls -a see I told you it was there) You must edit your .newsrc file to reflect the newsgroups you wish to subscribe to. By subscribe I mean that you will be notified when any new articles belonging to the news groups you subscribe to arrives here ("here" is officially known on the news network as utzoo). You don't incur any "charges" for subscribing to a newsgroup other than the on line time needed to read the news and any block space taken should you wish to save any of the articles you read. Below is a sample .newsrc file edited to include the micros newsgroup. To add other groups you add the name onto the options line (newsgroups separated by commas) and add a line for each newsgroup with the name of the newsgroup, a colon, and an article index of the form: 1-number, where number is that of a recent article in the newsgroup in question (use the % recent newsgroup command, as below, to get an idea of what number to use). options -n general,mircos general: 1-275 micros: 1-1 When there is news from any of your subscribed newsgroups waiting for you to read you will get the familiar "There is news" when you log in. To read your news you may use: % news read your news (just like before), or you can use % readnews which is a little fancier, giving you a short header for each article and prompting you as to whether you wish to see more of the article. As well readnews seems a little more robust and less prone to freezing than 'news' when you have a large number of articles awaiting your perusal. Some newsgroups of interest to microcomputer users ================================================== I've listed below a number of newsgroups you might wish to peruse and/or subscribe to. Use the recent command to view the newsgroup you are interested in (recording the article number if you want to add it to your .newsrc). eg. % recent comp.sys.ibm-pc newsgroup name newsgroup description ============== ===================== comp.periphs Computer peripherals. comp.sources.d comp.sources-related discussions. comp.sources.wanted Software want ads. comp.std.internat Internationalization of software. comp.sys.amiga Commodore Amiga computers. comp.sys.apple Apple (non-Mac) computers. comp.sys.atari.8bit 8-bit Atari computers. comp.sys.atari.st Atari ST computers. comp.sys.cbm Commodore (non-Amiga) computers. comp.sys.hp HP computers. comp.sys.ibm.pc IBM PCs etc. comp.sys.intel Intel computers. comp.sys.mac Apple's Macintosh computers. comp.sys.tandy Tandy (Radio Shack) computers. comp.sys.ti Texas Instruments computers. micros Local microcomputer-related news. mod.amiga The Amiga computer mod.computers.ibm-p Arpanet IBM PC group. ont.micro Local microcomputer discussions. There are other newsgroups. Should you wish to take a look at the complete list use the command: % newsgroups If you have any questions about news please feel free to send me mail (login: steve), call me (5303, 4716 or 3475 will all work, at least some of the time), or accost me in the halls. If I can't answer your question I'll try and find someone who can.