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From: Richard Sargeant <Sargeant@arcade.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: My Newsbase installation was working, until...
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Today, at 11:20:17 GMT +0000, Carol Carpenter wrote:
> > I unarchived Newsbase first of all, and tested that by itself...
>
> What an odd thing to do.
I found Acornet 0.20 already contained a NewsDir. During the startup
process, Newsbase tries to find if one already exists, and prompts the
user to create this and attempts to configure itself automatically if it
was not just a mistake of forgetting to have it seen by the filer first.
The feature I had discovered in Newsbase 0.59d is that it created a
slightly different format !Newsdir.newsbase.startup.c00saved.users
file (with details of the time and date of last login for each user).
So if any user already has an existing NewsDir, one of the objectives
I imagine they would have when upgrading software would be to keep
their e-mail in their existing NewsDir, from either a stand-alone
Newsbase installation, or a previous suite of the Acornet system.
In acornet_1.spk, there was a 41K compressed item (77K text file)
!Acornet.!NewsDir.newsbase.debugnews.new_news.0804224338
which is a temporary backup of a !Newsbase supplied welcome news batch
!Acornet.Resources.!Newsbase.Support.new_news
which you could have added your own material to, but would only be
used if the first time Newsbase installation process is performed.
Should the ANT transport be provided in a !Acornet distribution?
As I see it (using !Spark) compressed, it is three times larger
than the next largest transports (freenews and ka9q) and like the
Termite transport, something not really relevant to !Acornet users.
The directory for the !Newsbase.!AutoBoot program is missing, but
that should be the least of your worries because I had rewritten
this program (originally by Adam Goodfellow, IIRC) so it did not
generate an error like it used to in the Newsbase 0.58 release.
> I have stated several times that if you have a working updated copy
> already I do not advise you to use this one. Unpack it to a new
> directory, reset your station and try it out by all means.
Done this now (with yesterday's parts 1-3), and managed to get it
configured and connected on line all right. More feedback later.
Cheers,
Richard Sargeant
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