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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:59:03 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com>
Cc:        Jeff <jeff@kreska.org>, fbq <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Slurp config question
Message-ID:  <20000831105903.A71008@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <864s43juo2.fsf@dumpster.io.com>
References:  <39AC74EA.4D8AFBF8@kreska.org> <864s43juo2.fsf@dumpster.io.com>

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Lars Eighner wrote:

> In our last episode,  <39AC74EA.4D8AFBF8@kreska.org>,
> the lovely and talented Jeff 
> 
> J> I can't seem to get slurp to connect to my isp's news server which
> J> requires a username and password.
> 
>>> slurp -x -d news.isp.net
> 
> J> slurp: site_init: warning - cannot open file
> 
> I couldn't either.  If you don't get a better answer, try suck.

Even better, try newsx.  Available from
http://www.kvaleberg.com/newsx.html IIRC.  It's just nicer than suck
IMO, and I really ought to make a port of it I suppose.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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