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000051_owner-acornet@…s.barnet.ac.uk _Wed Aug 13 03:57:39 1997.msg
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From: Richard Sargeant <Sargeant@arcade.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: My Newsbase installation was working, until...
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S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
> Many people seem to want to be able to use PPP instead of SLIP nowadays.
Mainly because their ISP gives one a choice between a PPP connection, or
alternatively no dialup internet connection. :-) (eg. Enterprise, Virgin).
> That's it for now. I don't dare risk running it though
> because I don't want anything altered on my machine :-)
I unarchived Newsbase first of all, and tested that by itself...
# 012615 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.a00params
# 012624 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.c00config
# 012626 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.c01modpath
# 012627 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.c02newsgw
# 012627 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.c04macros
# 012627 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.c05menus
# 012627 startup: !Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.support.startup.c06misc
# 012627 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.feed
# 012627 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.filters
# 012628 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.groups
# 012630 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.misc
# 012630 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.site
# 012631 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.tcpip
# 012631 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.transport
# 012631 startup: !NewsDir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.users
Oh, these other people who are not brave. :) I already had upgraded to
the latest release of Newsbase (which downgraded the copy of Dynamite
ver 1.21 I had installed for the purpose of testing it for Mr Wooding).
# 012633 0.59c error: Number too big at 20686
Maybe it's trying to tell us something?
Regards,
Richard Sargeant
PS. No harm done, but Newsbase was not the only "old" application supplied.
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