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Re: Problems running tin newsreader
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: rotaiv <rotaiv at biapo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:32:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problems running tin newsreader
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
rotaiv schrieb:
> When I downloaded the binaries for tin from
> ftp://ftp.tin.org/pub/news/clients/tin/stable/tin-current.tar.gz and tried
> to execute it, I get the following message:
If they provide a binary for cygwin there, ask them...
I guess Urs is the maintainer of tin and you may also ask
at the german newsgroup news:de.alt.comp.cygwin+co
> Can't get a (fully-qualified) domain-name!
> Try and save newsrc file again? (y/n): y
> I followed the directions and exported NNTPSERVER so it pointed to a known,
> valid, NNTP server. But it still does not work. Is there something else I
> should be doing? I tried to search the archives and on the Internet but
> could not find anything useful.
> Incidentally, I tried to compile my own version but that also failed with
> an error message that it could not find the parsdate.y file. This file was
> present in the "src" directory so I don't know what it failed.
> I am using cygwin 1.3.10-1 with all the latest packages from setup.
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