HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ware@cs.widener.edu (Mark Ware)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: cnews doit.bin script
Date: 12 Oct 1992 07:47:15 -0400
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: shirley.cs.widener.edu


Im trying to install cnews on a IPC running sunOS 4.1.2. at work (this is my 
academic account) and am having trouble with the doit.bin script.  Every 
thing seems to continue normally until it gets to the relaynews compile.

I asked around and most people said it looks like an bug in the script.
Did I miss a patch er something?  

BTW if this is in the FAQ I apologize prfusely and hope that someon will
mail it to me ;)


Output from doit.bin:
----------------------------------------CUT-----------------------------------

.
.
.
[stuff deleted]

+ : done 
+ : installing programs 
+ cd ../conf 
+ make bininstall BIN=/bin RBIN=/bin COPTS=-O DBM= 
cp spacefor queuelen /usr/lib/newsbin
if test -r hostname ; then cp hostname /usr/lib/newsbin ; fi
if test -r dostatfs ; then cp dostatfs /usr/lib/newsbin ; fi
if test -r doustat ; then cp doustat /usr/lib/newsbin ; fi
if test -r doultrix ; then cp doultrix /usr/lib/newsbin ; fi
: and build takes care of setnewsids if needed
+ cd ../batch 
+ make bininstall BIN=/bin RBIN=/bin COPTS=-O DBM= 
if test ! -d /usr/lib/newsbin/batch ; then mkdir /usr/lib/newsbin/batch ; fi
cp batcher batchih batchsm batchsplit comp compcun nocomp viainews viauux  sendbatches compc7 c7encode viamail viapmail bencode compb viauuxz  viaemail viarsh viauuxl viauuxcun batchcheck batchra vianowhere  comp12 /usr/lib/newsbin/batch
+ cd ../dbz 
+ make bininstall BIN=/bin RBIN=/bin COPTS=-O DBM= 
cp dbz /usr/lib/newsbin
+ cd ../expire 
+ make bininstall BIN=/bin RBIN=/bin COPTS=-O DBM= 
if test ! -d /usr/lib/newsbin/expire ; then mkdir /usr/lib/newsbin/expire; fi
cp expire histdups histinfo histslash mkhistory  upact doexpire mkadir recovact expireiflow /usr/lib/newsbin/expire
+ cd ../input 
+ make bininstall BIN=/bin RBIN=/bin COPTS=-O DBM= 
if test ! -d /usr/lib/newsbin/input ; then mkdir /usr/lib/newsbin/input ; fi
rm -f /usr/lib/newsbin/input/newsspool
cp newsspool newsrun newsrunning c7decode bdecode recenews recpnews rnews cunbatch /usr/lib/newsbin/input
cp rnews cunbatch /bin
: "and newsspool needs to be made setuid-news"
+ cd ../relay 
+ make bininstall BIN=/bin RBIN=/bin COPTS=-O DBM= 
mkdir /usr/lib/newsbin/relay /usr/lib/newsbin/ctl
mkdir: /usr/lib/newsbin/relay: File exists
mkdir: /usr/lib/newsbin/ctl: File exists
*** Error code 1 (ignored)
cp ctl/[a-z]* /usr/lib/newsbin/ctl
cp: ctl/alternate: Is a directory (not copied).
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `/usr/lib/newsbin/relay/relaynews'
+ exit 1 

-- 
Mark Ware                          My employer has no idea I have net access.
ware@cs.widener.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is there a size limit for a sys file entry?? (Cnews)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:35:15 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <ianh.718522368@morgana> ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle) writes:
>1) Can the lines be continued as above with the '\' ??

Yes.

>2) Is there a limit imposed during the parsing of the sys file with regard to
>   the size of the entry.

No.  Not in our software, anyway; there are occasional minor problems with
implementations of awk (etc.) that have limits and are used in some of the
supporting shell scripts.

>Could an alternative strategy be to send _them_ everything and let the 
>selective acceptance/rejection be done at their end??

Yes, this works, although it will mean wasting transmission time and
spooling space on articles that will be thrown away on processing.
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: INN on ULTRIX 4.2
Date: 7 Oct 1992 15:11:53 -0400
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <1992Oct6.230019.340@lester.appstate.edu> COMBSTM@APPSTATE.EDU (*Terry M. Combs) writes:
>Has anyone tried to implement INN on ULTRIX 4.2 - RISC?
Sure; news.bbn.com is/was a DECstation 3100.

>I am particularly interested in the issues of the syslogd daemon, config.data
>used, and what to do about certain compile errors.
Your best bet is to junk the Ultrix4.2 syslog and install the modern one
that is distributed with INN.  If you are paranoid about that, see the README.
(This is documented in the Install manual.)  The Install manual also includes
a typical config.data set for Ultrix.

What compile errors are you getting?
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: error writing `/usr/lib/news/history'
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:25:40 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1992Oct13.003331.5349@colnet.cmhnet.org> res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli) writes:
>relaynews: error writing `/usr/lib/news/history', probably the disk filled (Not a typewriter)

The crucial thing to know about this message is that that helpful hint
about the probable cause was *always* wrong; I eventually convinced Geoff
to take it out because it was misleading too many people.
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news' nntpxmit keeps causing a reboot of my Sun.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:32:42 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <BvtMvp.7F7@trc.amoco.com> zwbm07@hou.amoco.com writes:
>When it came back up, it began to reboot regularly. 
>I traced it to the nntpxmit process, but I don't know enough about news
>to solve the problem.  Sun says that the process tries to get a free
>cylinder group and that causes the system to panic.

Ask Sun "how is it that something a user process does can panic the system?".
This is a system bug, not a news problem.
-- 
MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s.      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
              -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
From: dhenchoz@ulci20.unil.ch (Daniel HENCHOZ)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Poting multiple newsarticle
Date: 9 Oct 92 08:53:09 GMT
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)


Hello !

I've used a utility to convert existing articles from VAXNOTES to news. This
utility creates a file with the following format :

#! rnews 440
From: ...
Newsgroup: ...
Subject: ...
Date: ...

Content of one article

#! rnews 693
And so on ..

How can I post all these articles in the same time using C-news software ?

Thanks in advance for your help !

							Daniel
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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: INN on ULTRIX 4.2
Date: 7 Oct 1992 21:18:05 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG

In news.software.b, article <1992Oct6.230019.340@lester.appstate.edu>,
  COMBSTM@APPSTATE.EDU (*Terry M. Combs) writes:
> Has anyone tried to implement INN on ULTRIX 4.2 - RISC?
> 
Yes. I even succeded.  :-)

> I am particularly interested in the issues of the syslogd daemon, config.data
> used, and what to do about certain compile errors.
> 
I don't remember any outrageous compiler errors, other than the usual
inability to understand "void" and "const". I dealt with syslogd by changing
the port names in the daemon and the library from "log" to "nlog" and from
"syslog" to "nsyslog", and adding an appropriate entry to /etc/services.
That way the old and new syslog can coexist. You may be able to just drop
the new syslog right in in place of the old, and create a new syslog.conf of
course.

> - Terry Combs                              Appalachian State University
> - Terry Combs                              Appalachian State University

One .sig only, please...

-- 
Deliberation, n.:
	The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is
	buttered on.
		-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
-- 
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Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: Is there a size limit for a sys file entry?? (Cnews)
Organization: Software Tool & Die Netnews Research Center
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:32:08 GMT

Ian Hoyle:
>1) Can the lines be continued as above with the '\' ??

Yes; see newssys(5).

>2) Is there a limit imposed during the parsing of the sys file with regard to
>   the size of the entry.

No.  (Sorry. :-)

>Could an alternative strategy be to send _them_ everything and let the 
>selective acceptance/rejection be done at their end??

Yes, and I'd be tempted to do just that if you are sending them news via
a local phone call or the internet.
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

open, a. admitting visitors or customers; not yet settled or decided (OPD)
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: POSTMARK not displayed: "Date:" header changed.
Date: 15 Oct 92 10:16:10 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Oct14.144522.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>,
 fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu writes:
> Would someone please comment on this?  If ANU-News is a "fault", does V6.1
> correct the error?  Is there a work-around or patch I can apply to V6.0-3?
> If the problem is in C-News or the NNTP server, what needs to be reconfigured?
> Does RFC 1036 say what the local guru says it says??

The local guru is correct, the dates are OK.  The date parsing has
been changed in V6.1.  It should be able to handle the dates that
V6.03 is having problems with.
-- 
USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: checkgroups msg does not work.
From: Ufrgs News Manager <NEWSMGR@VORTEX.UFRGS.BR>
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:47:00 -0300
Reply-To: Ufrgs News Manager <NEWSMGR@VORTEX.UFRGS.BR>
X-VMS-To: ANU-NEWS
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

   I'm trying to create my first newsgroups set from a checkgroups message, but
it seems the procedure described in the manual does not work. Here is what I
did
   - Got a copy of a checkgroups message from news.admin
   - Edited the message, deleting all headers and instructions in the
beginning. The begining of the edited message is bellow:
 
Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl,junk.ctl
Distribution: local
From: news
Subject: cmsg checkgroups
Control: checkgroups
 
!mod
comp.admin.policy       Discussions of site administration policies.
comp.ai                 Artificial intelligence discussions.
comp.ai.edu             Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Education.
comp.ai.neural-nets     All aspects of neural networks.
comp.ai.nlang-know-rep  Natural Language and Knowledge Representation. (Moderate
   d)
 
   .....
 
   - Edited my news.sys file to accept all root names for these newsgroups:
 
me:ufrgs,br,comp,inet,sci,rec,news,misc,soc,talk,junk,control,\
to.vortex.ufrgs.br:::world,na,comp,usa,local,ufrgs,cpd,br
 
   Where ufrgs. and br. are local groups.
 
   - Used the ADD FILE/EXECUTE newsgroup.list
 
   The first time I tried, ANU refused the article due to lack of a message-id
header line. I then included one like Message-id: <111111@xxxxx.yyyy>. This time
the message gets posted on the control newsgroup, but nothing happened. I also
tried an ADD FILE newsgroup.list (using another message id) and, again, nothing
happened. Also, the docs says that a log file would be posted to the account
USENET (defined as newsmgr) but it does not occur.
   What I'm doing wrong?
 
   Gelson D. Santos
   gelson@vortex.ufrgs.br
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: WHAT ARE WAIKATO MENUS?
From: jthart@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:08:31 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: jthart

ANU-news is running on our system as "VMS News - V6.0-3 (14-Mar-1991)." After
the directory list appears the following message is also posted: "Waikato Menus
- Press ESC at NEWS> prompt." What does this mean? Pressing the ESC key simply
acts like pressing the <Return>, no special menus appear. Does anyone know
what "Waikato Menus" are? No one in our computer center has the answer to this
curiosity. Thanks for answers, Joe Hart JTHART@CSUPOMONA.EDU
From: ta2321s@dunix.drake.edu (Terry Asher)
Subject: set profile/fastload
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:00:09 GMT

   We have ANU-News version 6.0-3.  We have 1400 some user groups and when we
select news on our menu it takes anywhere from 5 to 7 minutes to load up all
the newsgroups.  So I have done the set profile/fastload command and then
I start registering the new groups that I want in my new directory.  It will
only let me register 2 groups then it stops.  How can I load more than
2 groups?  Why is set profile/fastload undocumented?
   Our system is a VAX 8650 with a DEC 3100 Ultrix Workstation which runs
our Usenet groups.
Terry Asher
From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: messy columns on terminal
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:37:29 GMT
Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences

In article <1992Oct6.122247.1060@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>, ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.111743.9708@augustana.ab.ca>, bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca writes:
   [...]
>> Why do the columns sometimes get screwed up when reading news in screen
>> mode?  I mean, the title, from, and date lines end up shifted a small
>> random number of columns, so they don't line up properly.
> 
> News is *very* fussy about the tabs setting.  Make sure that you're set for
> columns every 8 characters.  If your users do stuff like accidently type out
> binary files to the screen outside of News, they may have messed up the tabs
> settings.  Go into the terminal configuration menus and reset them back to
> every 8.

	ah, but Ed, I have this happen quite often (*especially* on my 2400bd
	link at home) and I don't have to *DO* anything.. after the odd
	dir/newsgroups or whatever, things behave themselves (for a while).
	It happens enough to get slightly annoyed - but not enough to toss
	away and go to other news clients :-)  (ANU-News 6.0-3, VMS 5.4-3)
	It is *not* the TAB settings.. (I checked!)
	Is it SMG? Is it NEWS?  Is it VMS? Puzzled...

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ Luke Brennan                             e-mail:      brennan@cchs.su.oz.AU +
+ EDP Unit, S209                          brennan%cchs.su.oz.au@cunyvm.BITNET +
+ Cumberland College of Health Sciences,                              ,-_|\   +
+ The University of Sydney                  voice: +61 2 646 6402    /     \  +
+ East Street, Lidcombe, NSW 2141             fax: +61 2 646 4853    \_,-._*  +
+ AUSTRALIA                                                               v   +
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
From: jimkirk@news.uwyo.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: moderated newsgroups
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:51:14 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Wyoming - Laramie, WY

I've tried to post to moderated newsgroups, but News seems to just stuff
the article in the local database instead of mailing it off to the
moderator.  I know News is supposed to do this "correctly" but it appears
to be unaware of which groups are moderated.  Is there something that
needs to be specified in some startup/configuration file to make this
work correctly?  I sort of thought it was automatic with no choice.

If it helps, this is our news.sys file:

# First do us
me:local,alt,bit,biz,bionet,comp,gnu,ieee,info,k12,misc,ncar,news,pubnet,\
rec,sci,soc,talk,trial,usa-today,vms,vmsnet,!junk,control
#
# Now for our "reverse-feed" site at CSN.ORG
csn:alt,bit,biz,bionet,comp,gnu,ieee,info,k12,misc,ncar,news,pubnet,rec,sci,\
soc,talk,trial,usa-today,vms,vmsnet,!junk,control,!local:\
N:NEWS_MANAGER_DEV/[IHAVE_CSN]COLLECT.IDS

Jim Kirkpatrick
jimkirk@corral.uwyo.edu
From: welker@GTEWD.MTV.GSC.GTE.COM (RON WELKER)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: new News administrator, problem with posting
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:12:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: GTEWD.00961DB9.32924380.11960
Reply-To: welker@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

I finally got ANU-NEWS running (although I picked up the BETA-5 version
to do it), and have a newsfeed. The news is coming in and going into the
newsgroups fine, but when I try to post anything, it only shows up on
my system. I'm running VMS V5.5-1, UCX V2.0 and MX V3.1-C. They all seem
to work fine, mail is sent and received via MX with no problem. In the
file NEWS_MANAGER:NEWS_ADDRESS.CNF file, I only had one line:
*               mx%"\001@\002"
since I don't have a complicated situation (yet). My newsfeed is of course
via TCP/IP with an Internet connection from here.
 
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks
 
Ron
||
||Ron Welker (415) 966-2900
||
||Internet:                        US Mail:
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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: messy columns on terminal
From: Geoff Huston <G.Huston@AARNET.EDU.AU>
Date: 12 Oct 1992 06:26:32 +1000
Reply-To: Geoff Huston <G.Huston@AARNET.EDU.AU>
In-reply-to: <9210100935.AA20902@jatz.aarnet.edu.au> from"ANU-NEWS@VM1.NoDak.EDU" at Oct 9, 92 08:37:29 pm
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL0]
Content-Length: 642
X-cc:         ANU-NEWS@VM1.NoDak.EDU

>         ah, but Ed, I have this happen quite often (*especially* on my 2400bd
>         link at home) and I don't have to *DO* anything.. after the odd
>         dir/newsgroups or whatever, things behave themselves (for a while).
>         It happens enough to get slightly annoyed - but not enough to toss
>         away and go to other news clients :-)  (ANU-News 6.0-3, VMS 5.4-3)
>         It is *not* the TAB settings.. (I checked!)
>         Is it SMG? Is it NEWS?  Is it VMS? Puzzled...
 
try set term/notab
 
it'll be slower - but the screen will be well formatted - the problem
is the interaction between SMG and the terminal
 
Geoff
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Confused by distributions...
Date: 12 Oct 92 10:14:38 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Oct9.172214.3598@memstvx1.memst.edu>,
 flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers) writes:
> In article <1992Oct8.122428.716@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
>> With NEWS 6.1, NEWS.DISTRIBUTION is obsolete; its functions are
>> available through syntax in the NEWS.SYS entries.  
> 
> I don't see anything different in the syntax of the lines in NEWS.SYS in
> V6.1B5.  Is there another field, as yet undocumented?

As of V6.0 you can say:

rem_system/system1,system2...:...

This syntax indicates that articles that have system1 or system2 in
the Path: header should not be sent to rem_sytem.  This fully replaces
the functionality of the NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file. NEWS.DISTRIBUTION is
OBSOLETE and should be DELETED.
-- 
USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: set profile/fastload
Date: 8 Oct 92 08:45:36 CDT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Oct7.210009.3902@dunix.drake.edu>,
 ta2321s@dunix.drake.edu (Terry Asher) writes:
> ... Why is set profile/fastload undocumented?

Fastload is undocumented because it doesn work, as you found out.
-- 
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E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
From: flowers@memstvx1.memst.edu (Harry Flowers)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Confused by distributions...
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:22:14 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

In article <1992Oct8.122428.716@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
> With NEWS 6.1, NEWS.DISTRIBUTION is obsolete; its functions are
> available through syntax in the NEWS.SYS entries.  

I don't see anything different in the syntax of the lines in NEWS.SYS in
V6.1B5.  Is there another field, as yet undocumented?

As to why I'm still using a NEWS.DISTRIBUTION file, some of my news
neighbors are also neighbors with each other, and exchange news faster
than with my site.  So, anything I get from either of the neighbors
just wastes time and resources offering it to the other site.  I use
NEWS.DISTRIBUTION to avoid sending IHAVE messages for news between
adjacent sites through our system.
--
Harry Flowers                           Internet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU
Memphis State University                & Bitnet: FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1
From: cts@dragon.com (Charles T. Smith, Jr.)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Problems using fastload with skim
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:11:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Projects Unlimited

We currently carry about 1,500 newsgroups;  running ANU News 6.03.  The
amount of time news takes cranking up is becoming a problem, especally
for the batch jobs that add the entries.  My feeds already send very
large batches; I don't see getting a lot out of appending batches together
as some users have outlined. 

I tried creating a very small newsrc. file and enabling fastload on the
account that ran news manager jobs;  the adds worked fine;  however, this
hung the skim process in the /HISTORY process.  Seemed to go into an
infinite loop...  Has anyone else seen this, or have a workaround?  

How much does 6.1 improve things performance wise?  And where do I find
the lasest version?
From: newsmgr@vax1.utulsa.edu (Beelzebub)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: news.items corrupted
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:45:28 CST
Organization: The University of Tulsa

Our NEWS device crashed over the weekend right in the middle of running
NEWSPACK.  As a result, my news.items file was corrupted.  When NEWSSKIM
came on, it deleted EVERYTHING.  We have a full backup on Oct 10, 1992,
which I have restored.  The problem:  An incremental caught anything after
Oct 10, but if I restore this new news.items file, the same calamity will
occur.  Is there any easy way to restore all the items from the
incremental?  The only solution I can think of is using ADD BATCH, which
is long and time consuming.

Any help is greatly appreciated.  Running:  ANU NEWS 6.0-3, VAX/VMS 5.5
--
! Ted H. Holland			*  "Man's mind once stretched by a new
! The University of Tulsa               *   idea never regains its original   
! Computing and Information Resources   *   dimension."                       
! newsmgr@vax1.utulsa.edu               *   --Oliver Wendell Holmes