From ysato@etl.go.jp  Thu May 11 13:53:30 JST 2000
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Subject: Vin/COMOS/3.4.0
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HOW TO GET NEWS-READER "vin"
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      ORIGINAL DISTRIBUTION:

          ftp://ftp.etl.go.jp/pub/cosmos/dist3.4.0/

      FILE NAME                PLATFORM
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      vin-cygwin-b20.exe.gz    CYGWIN-B20
      vin-freebsd-22.gz        FreeBSD/2.2.5
      vin-linux-rh41.gz        Linux(RedHat/4.1,Kernel/2.0.27+i586)
      vin-linux-rh61.gz        Linux(RedHat/6.1,Kernel/2.2.12+i586)
      vin-sunos-sparc.gz       SunOS{4,5}+SPARC
      -----------------------  ------------------------------------
      lib-doc-var.tar.gz       common
 
HOW TO INSTALL AND TEST
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      % mkdir /usr/local/cosmos
      % chdir /usr/local/csomos
      ... download file(s) from ftp://ftp.etl.go.jp/pub/cosmos/ ...
      % gzip -d < lib-doc-var.tar.gz | tar xf -
      % mkdir bin
      % gzip -d < vin-XXXXXXXXXXX.gz > bin/vin
      % setenv NNTPSERVER your-news-server-host
      % bin/vin

CONFIGURATION AND CUSTOMIZING
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      - You can configure Vin/COSMOS by a file "lib/vin_setup" if necessary
        to adapt to your environment.

      - You can install Vin/COSMOS at any directory but note that you must
        locate "lib", "doc", "var" and "bin" for Vin/COSMOS under the same
        directory.

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