*BSD Usenet News via Telnet
*BSD Usenet News via Telnet
Minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au keeps an archive of the news on *BSD, taken from the
Usenet newsgroups comp.os.386bsd.* and comp.unix.bsd. This archive can be
accessed via telnet.
You can do two things:
- search through the news subject lines for a particular pattern.
- retrieve particular articles.
To do this, telnet to minnie and login as bsdnews. When you get the bsdnews
command prompt, you can issue the following commands:
- help: get help about the service.
- grep {egrep pattern}: look for this pattern in the subject lines.
- read {article}: retrieve the specific article.
- quit: exit the servce.
You can set/unset both TERM and PAGER, if you want to get a page at a time.
Use the help command to get more help on the service.
A complete manual page
on the interface is available.
Warren Toomey wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au,
January 1994