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- From: mrr@mrsoft.network23.com (Mark Rinfret)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: Re: weird problem with ARn 1.00 and .grouplist
- Message-ID: <oz3bs*TT0@mrsoft.network23.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:29:44 GMT
- References: <rlcarr.098w@animato.network23.com>
- Distribution: world
- Organization: MRsoftware
- X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00
- Lines: 40
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- In article <rlcarr.098w@animato.network23.com>, Rich Carreiro writes:
-
- > > I am trying to use ARn, but I have a bit of a problem. Whenever I start
- > ARn, it says:
- >
- > arn: Info: rec.arts.startrek.info is an obsolete group in GROUPLIST (deleted).
- > arn: Info: rec.arts.startrek.misc is an obsolete group in GROUPLIST (deleted).
- > arn: Info: rec.arts.comics.xbooks is an obsolete group in GROUPLIST (deleted).
- > arn: Info: alt.folklore.urban is an obsolete group in GROUPLIST (deleted).
- >
- > I haven't the slightest idea why. I read over 40 newsgroups and it finds
- > all the other groups fine except for these. I am using ARn with UUCP d1.16
- > and have followed all the directions. When I ran ArnMaster for the first time
- > it saw all the articles in those groups (and in all the others) and built
- > the .newsdb files in all the directories. It lets me read, manipulate, etc.
- > all the other newsgroups but these four. There is nothing special about them.
- > They all exist in my ACTIVE file just like the other groups, and they are all
- > in my .GROUPLIST like the other groups, except Arn refuses to treat them
- > normally, refuses to let me (re)subscribe to them, refuses to update read
- > articles in them and so on.
- >
- > In my .grouplist, these groups are entered as:
- > rec.arts.startrek.info: ;8;
- > rec.arts.startrek.misc: ;9514;
- > rec.arts.comics.xbooks: ;3351;
- > alt.folklore.urban: ;385;
-
- ^^^^ This your problem.
-
- The grouplist must be SORTED. I don't know if this requirement was newly
- implemented or newly enforced, but I experienced the same problems you
- described until I read the document quite carefully. Prior to ARN 1.00,
- my unsorted grouplist worked fine.
-
- Mark
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