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- From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
- Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news,news.answers
- Subject: FAQ: news.software.anu-news
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- Date: 16 May 2004 00:10:00 -0500
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- Archive-name: anu-faq
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- FAQ for NEWS.SOFTWARE.ANU-NEWS. Last update 24-Aug-1998.
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- This monthly posting is edited by Bob Sloane, University of Kansas.
- Please send any suggestions for improvement to sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu.
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- 1. What is ANU News?
-
- ANU NEWS is a computer-based conferencing system for OpenVMS systems. ANU
- NEWS can be connected into the Global USENET news network and/or any other
- news network. ANU NEWS supports both DECnet and TCP/IP (Multinet, WIN/TCP,
- Ultrix Connection, EXCELAN TCP, and CMU) as transports.
-
- The current version of ANU NEWS is 6.2.
-
- 2. Purpose of News.software.anu-news
-
- The purpose of news.software.anu-news is to discuss any and all ANU NEWS
- related issues. It is the primary support channel for ANU NEWS users.
- New versions, fixes, workarounds, etc are posted to the newsgroup. Bug
- reports/fixes and suggestions for improvement are always welcome. Please
- always RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) before posting.
-
- 3. How to subscribe
-
- On USENET, news.software.anu-news is a regularly available newsgroup. In
- general, it is preferable to read the newsgroup instead of the mailing list.
-
- Email users may send MAIL to LISTSERV@listserv.NoDak.EDU or
- LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 with the first line of the TEXT or BODY of mail
- being:
-
- SUB ANU-NEWS firstname lastname (e.g. SUB ANU-NEWS John Doe ).
-
-
- 4. Frequently Asked Questions:
-
- Q: How do I acquire a copy of ANU News? A: ANU News is available for
- anonymous FTP from kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Kansas, USA). Other sites may
- also have it available..
-
- Archives of the mailing list/newsgroup are available via anonymous ftp
- from listserv.nodak.edu.
-
- Patches are available via anonymous ftp from perl.newman.upenn.edu.
-
- Q: Does anybody have documentation for ANU News?
- A: At the anonymous FTP sites, you will find another compressed backup
- saveset called something like NEWS_V61-BETA10_DOC.ZIP. It contains the
- documentation for ANU News.
-
- Q: What should I do about all these compilation errors in V6.1b10?
-
- A: The u_int problem is fixed by an ECO from Cisci/TGV. Ftp to
- eco.tgv.cisco.com, username anonymous, password decc052h, grab
- the header files, and put them in [multinet.include.sys].
-
- The getopt problems are cured by editing inpaths.c and changing all
- strings "getopt" to "my_getopt".
-
- You may also need to edit nntpinclude.h and delete the definition
- of getpeername around line 127
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- You may also need to edit newsutility.c and delete the definition of sleep.
-
- You may still get a few warnings but you can probably ignore them.
- (Thanks to James Kirkpatrick for this answer)
-
- Q: Does ANU News support XOVER in the NNTP Server?
- A: Well, sort of. There is some simple minded XOVER code in the V6.1b10
- server. First, you needed to get patch 950817_NNTP_SERVER.PATCH
- from the patch archives at perl.newman.upenn.edu and apply it. Then put
- "#define XOVER" near the beginning of NNTP_SERVER.C and rebuild NEWS.
- A better version of XOVER support is available in V6.2, but the
- "#define XOVER" is still needed.
-
- Q: NEWS is sending everything I get back to my feed system. What do I do?
- A: Make sure that the system name in NEWS.SYS matches what your feed
- system puts in the Path: header.
-
- Q: I am remote reading (diskless client) with ANU from a Cnews site and
- my users regularly crash due to memory problems.
- A: Verify that NNTP on the Cnews side is returning the correct message
- numbers on the list command. If not, then ask the remote system's news
- administrator to run upact on a regular basis to update the number in
- the active file.
-
- Q: How do I connect to an NNTP server?
- A: Try "news/netsever=newshost/netproto=tcp" where "newshost" is the name
- of the NNTP server. Note this connects over a TCP/IP network and requires
- that News was built to support to support that service. Also requires
- that the server accept a connection from your system.
-
- Q: News is awfully slow to start up. Especially for NNTP connections.
- A: News> set profile/fastload
- Will configure news to only load those newsgroup in which you are registered.
- This makes the start up considerably faster but you don't have access to
- groups you're not registered in. There have been reports of problems
- such as access violations and hangs when using this feature.
-
- Q: News is still slow to start up to an NNTP server.
- A: News> set profile/display=(unseenstack,nolines,nopost)
- Will configure news to only show you new articles and will not retrieve
- the line count or posting date. This is especially useful if you're
- running off of an NNTP server that doesn't support ANU extensions to NNTP.
- Retrieving line counts and posting dates is notoriously time consuming.
-
- Q: How do I get a signature file appended to my articles?
- A: News> set profile/signature=file.name
- Note you should keep your signature file brief -- no more than three
- lines.
-
- Q: How do I get my full name into my return address?
- A: News> set profile/personal_name="Your Name"
-
- Q: I want to use emacs as my editor.
- A: News> set profile/editor=emacs
- Note this requires, of course, that you have emacs installed on your
- system.
-
- Q: Command recall doesn't work.
- A: Of course it does -- use CTRL-B to go back a command. The arrow keys
- have been bound to other commands. If you would prefer to use the arrow
- keys for command recall, then do: News> set profile/line_editing
-
- Q: Do I need this big newsrc. file?
- A: News> set profile/rcfilter
- Will store only the registered groups in your newsrc. file, this makes
- rewritting the file quicker. Note that this will prevent you from
- accessing any groups not in your newsrc. file.
-
- Q: I want to display groups in a different order.
- A: News> set profile/rcorder
- Will display newsgroups in the order they are listed in your newsrc.
- file -- edit the file to order things accordingly.
-
- Q: I have just installed the NEWS server software. When I ran it the first
- time, I got the message:
- RMS-E-FNF, file not found
- RMS-F-IFI, invalid internal file identifier
- A: Either there is some problem with your NEWS logicals, the NEWS
- executable is not properly installed, or the account that you started
- NEWS from the first time doesn't have the NEWS manager id granted to it.
-
- Q: I am having problems getting KILL filters to work.
- A: In some versions of NEWS there is a bug in KILL/FROM. Just do
- MODIFY KILL n where n is the number of the kill filter that isn't
- working and delete the from: from the beginning of the filter.
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- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
- E-mail: sloane@ukans.edu http://www.ukans.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444
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- E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, Phone: (913) 864-0444, FAX: (913) 864-0485
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