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- Common problems with NewsHound
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- 'Cannot open group file!'
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- If you upgrade from an earlier version of newshound, check that
- the line beginning:
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- Default:
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- in !newshound.config.config has the nickname of your news server
- in it. (ie. Default: dem if the group file is called DemGroup)
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- 'How do I set the date so newshound will get just the last weeks news?'
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- Basically, you can't. NewsHound doesn't fetch by date - it works by
- looking at article numbers.
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- The equivalent when using article numbers is to be able to download
- upto the <x> latest articles.
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- You can do this either from the dialogue box that appears when you
- add a new newsgroup, or by editting the group file manually
- (!newshound.config.demgroup). Change the number after the newsgroup
- name to -51 to get upto 50 articles from the server.
- Change it to -1 to catch (not get any articles), or 0 to fetch all
- available articles.
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- NewsHound says it's already running, but it's not!
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- If NewsHound manages to exit without tidying up properly
- (ie. crashes), then you'll have to do *unset newshound$running at
- a command prompt.
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- My news server doesn't have the DATE and/or XOVER command
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- Switch on the relevant check box in the newshound configure window.
- The DATE command been unavailable means NewsHound will use your computers
- internal clock instead - you need to make sure this is accurate.
- If the XOVER command isn't supported by the server, then NewsHound
- will not be able to do duplicate suppresion, and the Rule files won't
- work, as newshound can't obtain the information it needs.
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