Tutorial: Using pine as a Newsreader

The pine news interface resembles the pine mail interface (page 88), with as much consistency among commands, screen displays, and folder organization as possible. This consistency makes it easier for those used to the pine mailer to use pine as a newsreader. If you are using Mozilla, you may prefer to use Mozilla News (page 405).

In order to use any newsreader, you must have access to Usenet news. Ask your ISP or system administrator for the address of your news server. If your site has no news server, you will not be able to read news.

Start pine and select SETUP from the MAIN MENU. Enter c (Config) on the initial SETUP screen to display the SETUP CONFIGURATION screen, where you can view and modify many ...

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