Contributors: David West <david_h_west@um.cc.umich.edu>,
        Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>

No, it's not yet possible. For now what you need to do is to Configure
it once to read things locally, compile it and save the trn executable
under some other name. Then Configure it for NNTP access and compile and
install that (the NNTP scripts are usable locally but not visa versa, so
this order is important).  Finally, rename the installed trn executable
trrn and move the saved-off local version to trn.

Once you've done that you'll need to create a directory for your local
newsrc that is in a different place than your NNTP newsrc and use the
DOTDIR environment variable to tell trn which directory to use.  A
simple alias or a shell file in your local bin dir will take care of
all the details.

Trn 4.0 will allow multiple, simultaneous news sources to be open at the
same time (both local and remote) with full control over what
servers/local-directories are to be used available to each user (each
source needs its own .newsrc file).  You may either switch from server
to server, or have multiple newsrcs open at the same time (if a group is
available from multiple sources, it is read from the first newsrc that
has it available).  It even allows you to use a remote news source and a
local (or nfs-mounted) active file, all configurable at run-time.


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