Re: gnus on XP

[notbob]

notbob wrote:
> Howdy.  emacs noob, here.
>
> I'm occasionally stuck using a suck XP box instead of my beloved 
> Slackware.  Being a CLI freak, I d/l'd emacs to use gnus.  But, so far 
> no joy.  I ran runemacs.exe and even addpm.exe.  I also created a 
> C:\.emacs and C:\.gnus file.  In .gnus, I put:

OK, it's official.  I'm losing my mind.

I've tried everything, even the whole foreign server thing, to no avail. 
 I had the firewall down and made sure no other news clients were open. 
 I even reloaded and re-installed emacs 22.1 after deleting all 
previous emacs files.  So, I then tried gnus (M-x gnus) in the new 
install and it should prompt me for a server.  Nope!  I get only this:

Loading gnus...done
Loading gnus-start...
Loading easymenu...done
Loading gnus-start...done
Loading gnus-agent...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading gnus-agent...done
Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)  y

nntp (news) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
Couldn't open server on news

IOW, this install is not even promting me for a server like emacs 21 in 
Slackware does.  It's like it's broken or something.  You can tell it's 
not looking or waiting for a response, it's just instantly throwing up 
the "Unable to open..." msg without doing anything.  I've been working 
on this daily since my orig post and have found zip on google groups, 
mailing lists, irc, etc.  WTF!?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

BTW, erc is killer.  Blows irssi away.  ;)

nb