This file is /cdf/run1/documents/development/cdfsga_bulletin.note



The usual CDFNEWS bulletins are available on cdfsga.

They are stored in the UNIX newsgroups fnal.cdf.cdf, fnal.cdf.bphys,
fnal.cdf.offline, fnal.cdf.plug_upgr

There are software controls designed to prevent these newsgroups
from being distributed to non-CDF machines.




=============== Access from Netscape ========================================

The CDFNEWS newsgroups can easily be accessed using Netscape.


One can start up a Netscape browser displaying the
CDFNEWS newsgroups in this way:

     > setup www
     > Netscape news:fnal.cdf.cdf &



Alternatively, if a Netscape browser is already running, click
on the "two conversation bubbles" icon, which is
the middle icon in the bottom right hand corner.

Or, select "Communicator" in the top row, then
"Collabra Discussions" from the pop up menu.





In some rare circumstances, you may find that you are subscribed
to all newsgroups, and that Netscape takes a very long time
to list them all.   If this happens to you, try quitting
Netscape, use the rm command to delete the following file:

     > rm $HOME/.newsrc

and start Netscape again.






=============== Access from xrn or trn ======================================

Also, these CDFNEWS newsgroups can be accessed with the standard 
UNIX newsgroup readers, for example:

For an Xterminal display
   > setup news
   > xrn &

For a plain terminal
   > setup news
   > trn 


When starting with xrn, you may want to do the following:
   1) The first time you run xrn, 
      In the upper window, Click on newsgroup fnal.cdf.cdf
      Click on Add first
      Click on Quit
      This will create a file called .newsrc in your $HOME directory
      with all the possible newsgroups listed, and with all
      of these groups marked as unsubscribed, except for fnal.cdf.cdf
Thereafter, xrn will show you only the fnal.cdf.cdf group.
    



=============== Printing from xrn ============================================

As an option, one can define a print command to xrn by adding
a line to the file $HOME/.Xdefaults similar to
xrn*printCommand: a2ps -p -1 -ns -nH -nL | flpr 

In addition, one probably wants to add a line to the 
file $HOME/.login similar to
setenv FLPQUE b0tr149a_hp5si
to specify ones favorite printer.




=============== Miscellaneous ================================================

Note: Since October 2nd, 1994, bulletins posted on cdfsga will appear 
on FNALD.  The server on FNALD runs once every 10 minutes, and
posts the bulletins that it finds.