Re: nntp over rlogin-and-netcat

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <address@hidden> Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I recently started to access a news server via an SSH tunnel.
> I first tried to do it with nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet, but it
> couldn't post new messages (the problem seems to be that the server expects
> a CR-LF-.-CR-LF byte-sequence, which didn't work when going through
> tty code (which seems to turn all CR into LFs) and then through telnet
> (which, did something very funny with LF)).

Hmm, now I use nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet and have no
problem.  The server spec for Gmane is:

(nntp "gmane"
      (nntp-address "news.gmane.org")
      (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
      (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-telnet)
      (nntp-via-address "jpl.org")
      (nntp-via-rlogin-command "ssh")
      (nntp-via-rlogin-command-switches ("-C" "-t" "-e" "none")))

> So I wrote the function nntp-open-via-rlogin-and-netcat below, which seems
> much saner: rather than use telnet and then try to undo what telnet does,
> using netcat gives us directly what we want.

I wrote just the same function in 12 Apr 2004 in the Gnus CVS
trunk (a.k.a. No Gnus).;-)  Though there is no function such as
`nntp-service-to-port'.  If you want to install it in Emacs, I
think a better way to make it easy to synch Gnus v5.11 and No
Gnus is to install the No Gnus version in which you add them in
Emacs.

Regards,