Gnus, offline, Windows 98

[Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren <roffe@tag.uio.no>]

I'm running Windows 98, and am in the middle of my yearly attempt of
trying to force Gnus to run off-line.

I've managed that, sort of, but I would like to be in synch with my
regular machine, so I've said

        (setq gnus-directory "/roffe@tag.uio.no:")
        (setq gnus-init-file "/roffe@tag.uio.no:.gnus")

to make Gnus use my UNIX files.  now, this works fine for the most
common Macintosh and Windows newsreaders.  reading and writing .newsrc
takes less than half a minute.

with Gnus, it doesn't seem to work.  the network monitor says reports
no traffic, but acknowledges that Windows runs its native ftp program.
weird.  so I downloaded ncftp instead, hoping the problem might be an
inadequate ftp program.

but things aren't much better with ncftp for Windows.  the network
monitor now reporst that there _is_ activity, but so little that
transferring the relevant files will take several hours.

any tips?

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       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
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       N-0551 OSLO             |               roffe@ask.uio.no 
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