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X-GUARANTEE3: Azurservers.com publishes SPF records and any spam or otherwise X-GUARANTEE4: harmful messages or content should be reported to abuse@azurservers.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 In-Reply-To: <64u1n2dc8egj6soks1kfba35iscjmdarea@4ax.com> Original-Lines: 106 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Dec 2006 11:31:34 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.242.110.54 Original-X-Trace: 1165055494 news-3.free.fr 13774 82.242.110.54:32831 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78505 X-Originally-To: georgethebest@tiscali.it Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8319 Archived-At: "@ the GeniusŪ @" writes: > How can I use emacs on my pc-windows? > I need to use emacs to connect on my university account > I have download emcs for windws. > First problem: > Mini buffer not active > How configure emacs? > I need to download x-win32? Well having recently installed Emacs on both Dos and Linux on a triple boot portable box, FreeBSD being the third system, I will try to give you some pointers since I am well aware how frustrating the initial experience can be: The file I used was at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ I took the full binary package: emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz I unpacked the archive [emacs-21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz] into c:/bin which is where all my application files are stored. 'c:/bin' is not a windoze 'default' directory ; in other words you must create it, the idea being to isolate yourself as much as possible from the junk that windoze puts wherever fancy seems to lead it, controlling your own files and letting windoze do whatsoever it likes with the rest However, it seems that you can move the unpacked 'emacs-21.3' file anywhere you like with no ill effects In actual fact I used the Linux tar utility to unpack the .tar.gz file, then zipped it to emacs-21.3.zip before dumping the zipper onto a windoze drive and unzipping it to c:/bin Having got thus far, you will naad a configuration file if you are to do much with emacs You might like to copy mine at http://azurservers.com/gnus or there plenty around the Net if you search for them The 'emacs' file you will get must be firstly placed in the root of your windoze boot drive which is most probably c:/ And you will have to edit it to reflect your personal data and coordinates rather than those that exist in the example files It must secondly be renamed to '.emacs' ; that is '[point]emacs' Then if you bring up a DosBox and type 'emacs -f gnus' you should have the news/mail facility on your screen As is, Emacs will not be of much use to you: at least one newsgroup is required. A good one to start with is alt.test.test So with your mouse, pointing device or keyboard if that is all you have for navigation, navigate to Groups-->Subscribe-->SubscribeToAGroup and enter down in the buffer at the bottom of your screen: alt.test.test You then should see the group listed in the main window with a few posts already in it. Select the group by hitting enter when your cursor is located on it and you will be able to see the posts To test your setup, type 'a' for article, fill in the missing fields and then Ctrl-c Ctrl-c to send the item Wait a short while and then hit 'g' for get the news and with any luck at all you will see your post Regarding emails specifically, as opposed to newsgroups, there is not very much difference However the actual configuration in .emacs will differ depending upon whether your email is on a POP or IMAP server. I assume that you are not running your own mailserver here, although my .emacs file is configured to pull mail from my own local mail spool so you will have to search for the precise code to suit your mail service's storage method, or ask again here specifying what type of server you want to access You might also want to start Emacs from a ShortCut or entry in your Start Menu by setting up an item pointing to your emacs.exe file, in my example it is c:/bin/emacs-21.3/bin/emacs.exe Hopefully this will be helpful and you might also want to look at installing 'erc' later which will bring enable you to IRC as well by flipping buffers. [Hmmmm. You might also devise a better SpamTrap since the rules specifically state that you must use a valid address when sending mail; the one you are using is liable to cause you some problems] Good Luck -- Regards, Slackrat Bill Henderson [No _4Q_ for direct email]