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


The usual UNIX newsgroups are available on cdfsga.




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

The UNIX newsgroups can easily be accessed from Netscape.


One can start up a Netscape browser displaying the
UNIX 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.



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

Also, these UNIX 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.