nntp-open-telnet

nntp-open-telnet

[William M. Perry]

you should be able to specify the telnet program to use in
nntp-open-telnet.  Some of us need to use a special prog, not just raw
'telnet'.

-Bill P.

Re: nntp-open-telnet

[David Blacka]

>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

 William> you should be able to specify the telnet program to use in
 William> nntp-open-telnet.  Some of us need to use a special prog,
 William> not just raw 'telnet'.

So, 'nntp-telnet-parameters' isn't enough?  I suppose that if you had
to navigate through a proxy nntp-open-telnet wouldn't necessarily do
the right thing anyway.

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David Blacka              Software Engineer        Product Development/
davidb@rwhois.net         Network Solutions, Inc.  Directory Services

Re: nntp-open-telnet

[William M. Perry]

David Blacka <davidb@rwhois.net> writes:

> >>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
> 
>  William> you should be able to specify the telnet program to use in
>  William> nntp-open-telnet.  Some of us need to use a special prog,
>  William> not just raw 'telnet'.
> 
> So, 'nntp-telnet-parameters' isn't enough?  I suppose that if you had
> to navigate through a proxy nntp-open-telnet wouldn't necessarily do
> the right thing anyway.

  Nope, I need to use 'rtelnet' instead of 'telnet', and there is no way
other than screwing with my path to do that.  Bleah.  Basically, I want to
read some IU specific newsgroups, even though I'm out here in seattle at a
real job. :)

-Bill P.

Re: nntp-open-telnet

[David Blacka]

>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

 William> David Blacka <davidb@rwhois.net> writes:
 >> So, 'nntp-telnet-parameters' isn't enough?  I suppose that if you had
 >> to navigate through a proxy nntp-open-telnet wouldn't necessarily do
 >> the right thing anyway.

 William>   Nope, I need to use 'rtelnet' instead of 'telnet', and
 William> there is no way other than screwing with my path to do that.
 William> Bleah.  Basically, I want to read some IU specific
 William> newsgroups, even though I'm out here in seattle at a real
 William> job. :)

Ah, I see.  Upon further examination of the code I notice that the
initial "telnet" is indeed hardcoded in.

Of course, you could also define your own 'nntp-open-rtelnet' function
by copying the nntp-open-telnet function and set nntp-open-connection
to that...  But in general, it would be a nice parameter to be able to
set.

-- 
David Blacka              Software Engineer        Product Development/
davidb@rwhois.net         Network Solutions, Inc.  Directory Services

Re: nntp-open-telnet

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> you should be able to specify the telnet program to use in
> nntp-open-telnet.  Some of us need to use a special prog, not just raw
> 'telnet'.

I've now added variables to allow customizing this.

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