trn4 for Debian --------------- Starting from trn4 version 4.0-test74-6 and trn version 3.6-15, it is now possible to install more than one trn package on a system and have them cooperate in a manner almost transparent to the user. The system is managed through "alternatives"; please see update-alternatives(8) if you are unfamiliar with these. Unfortunately, several separate alternatives need to be used, and so just 'update-alternatives --config trn' is not enough. You'll need to update each of them separately if you want to change the default. This package installs alternatives with the following names: Pnews Rnmail nntplist rn trn trn-artchk trn has a number of "public executables", which users expect to be on their $PATH; aside from trn itself, Pnews and Rnmail are perhaps the best-known of these. If you are a user on a system where some other trn is the default, you can normally just type 'trn4' and everything will work. However, if you have wrapper scripts that call these executables by name, you can either use the full pathname (/usr/lib/trn4/Pnews, etc.) or add /usr/lib/trn4 to the beginning of your $PATH environment variable. Man pages can be accessed by their usual names in the case of the default trn, and, for example, as trn4(1) and trn4-Pnews(1) otherwise. -- Colin Watson , Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:39:21 +0100