If you use trn, you may be interested in my "Introduction to Usenet News
and the 'trn' Newsreader". It covers the basics of reading and posting
articles, signature files, crossposting, etc., and is about 40 pages
long. 

There are versions for trn 2.5, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 (dated
August 15, 1994); and for trn 3.6 (dated January 4, 1995).  They share the
same text, except for the sections which discuss features that differ from
one version of trn to another. 

You can find out which version of trn you are using by typing 'v' (lower
case!) at the newsgroup selection prompt ('read now?'). 

This document is available in four formats:  

	1. as a Macintosh WriteNow 3.0/4.0 document;
	2. as a Microsoft Rich Text Format file which can be opened by 
MS Word 4.0 (or later) for the Mac and by other word processors for Mac,
DOS and Windows;
	3. as a PostScript file which can be printed (I hope) on any 
PostScript printer;
	4. as a plain ASCII text file which lacks all the font information
and most of the formatting (use this as a last resort).  

Format #1 is in the form of a BinHexed Stuffit archive (*.sit.hqx).  The
other formats are text files which have been compressed using GNU zip
(*.gz). 

You can get this document either (a) by anonymous ftp from cs1.presby.edu,
directory pub/trn-intro; or (b) from the Presbyterian College gopher server
(gopher.presby.edu, port 70; or somewhere in your "Other Gophers" menu), in 
the directory "Internet Resources".

(a) <URL:ftp://cs1.presby.edu/pub/trn-intro/>
(b) <URL:gopher://gopher.presby.edu>

If you have neither ftp nor gopher, I'll be happy to send you a copy via 
e-mail.  Please specify which version of trn you have and which format
(WriteNow, RTF, PS or text) you want.

[Editor's Note: request this from Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu>]


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