Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx with password-protected newsserver?

[Foteos Macrides]

address@hidden (Joachim Schaaf) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I want to read/post news with Lynx (nntp://...). The problem is that the
>newsserver is password-protected; tin for example reads the file ~/.newsauth
>to get username/password, Netscape shows a dialog box.. How could this be
>done with Lynx? 

        Current versions of Lynx do not handle nntp authentication.  It
would need to be added in ./WWW/Library/Implementation/HTNews.c.

                                Fote

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