From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 2:59:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD8137B423 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 02:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13UR7g-0005H8-00; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:59:04 +0100 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA71967; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:59:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ben) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:59:03 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Lars Eighner Cc: Jeff , fbq Subject: Re: Slurp config question Message-ID: <20000831105903.A71008@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <39AC74EA.4D8AFBF8@kreska.org> <864s43juo2.fsf@dumpster.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <864s43juo2.fsf@dumpster.io.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message