HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: larracey@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Cristina Larracey)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Problems with SKIM/FILE
Date: 5 Oct 92 00:41:08 GMT
Followup-To: news.software.anu-news
Organization: Purdue University

I am experiencing a problem with my nightly job that runs a skim from 
within news.  The command I use is SKIM /HISTORY=7, and it appears to do
most of the work alright - skims items, newsgroups, etc - but it doesn't seem 
to do anything when it gets to the skim/files part.  It doesn't write anything
to my logfile, and I don't see any files getting deleted.  Needless to say,
I am running out of space and headers on my disk! 

Has anyone seen this before?  Or can someone please give me some help on
how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks!  Please respond via email to Cristy@Lilly.com. (Careful how you
spell it!)

Cristy Larracey James
Lilly Research Laboratories
Cristy@Lilly.com
From: connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: WARNING!  ANU-News killer item
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:44:47 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

WARNING!  

The following article is roaming the net around just waiting to kill your
NEWSPOST procedure with an access violation:

8<---------8<  cut here  8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<
#! rnews 5742
Newsgroups: alt.feminism
From: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: Freshm*n
Keywords:   INSIPID WIMP

  [129 solid lines of NON-header headers removed]

Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:58:54 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
8<---------8<  and here  8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<


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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: ccla@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Lee Askew)
Subject: ANU-NEWS Installation Problems 
Organization: James Cook University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 08:12:01 GMT

Hello,

I am installing anu-news v6.01 (i think), and keep getting the error:

NEWS_DEVICE not properly defined - exiting

Can anyone tell me how to fix it???
I have followed the install guide etc, but with little success in
finding a fix for the above.

If anyone has a solution, or if they could send me a copy of their
config files i very much appreciate it...


Thanks Lee.



  Regards, Lee Askew	Internet:ccla@marlin.jcu.edu.au
  Phone: +61 77 814944           L_ASKEW@damsel.jcu.edu.au
  Fax:   +61 77 796371  Austpac :PSI%27372000051::L_ASKEW
                        Snail: Senior Programmer
			       Computer Centre
			       James Cook University
                               Townsville, 4811
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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: grozny@mars.ibioc.serpukhov.su (Andrey V. Grozny)
Subject: Crash on extract/dir=newsitems
Organization: Institute of Cell Biophysics
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 01:21:09 GMT

I'd like to maintain the list of articles in some newsgroups.
But when I give the following command to ANU-NEWS V6.0-3 for
group comp.binaries.ibm.pc:

extract/dir=newsitems/all/unread/append file.txt

it crashes with register dump:

%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=00000000,
PC=000BF7C4, PSL=0BC00000

For group alt.sources this command works ok.
Does somebody faced with such problem and have any solution?
Regards,
	Andrey Grozny.

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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
Subject: Re: NNTP_XFER, NNTP server, and port 119
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:06:30 GMT

In article <miklos.24@ub40.sztaki.hu> miklos@ub40.sztaki.hu (Pasztor Miklos) writes:
|  The problem is, that NNTP_XFER cannot start up if NNTP SERVER is
|  running. We recompiled and relinked NNTP_XFER with debug, and found out, 
|  that the  TCP port (nr 119) cannot be opened.

This is a bug in NNTP_XFER -- just change the 119 to a 0 where it's allocating
the local port, and recompile.

  Bill
From: rand@lucy.merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: NEWS_STOP logical and NEWS logicals generally.
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:39:47 GMT
Reply-To: rand@lucy.merrimack.edu ()
Organization: "Silicon Surfers, Inc."

,  1 11:39:47 19929211:39:47 1992ESTLines: 25


In article <1992Sep30.114141.3662@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, jonathan@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
>When NEWS_STOP is defined (/system /exec), NEWS correctly starts up, displays
>the following message and immediately exits:
>
>  NEWS is currently locked - forced image exit (LOGNAM)
>
>Unfortunately, no newline character is included and the DCL prompt overwrites
>the start of the message.  NEWSLOCK.C is the source file.
>
>I wonder if a more meaningful message for users might not be appropriate?

In my rebuild script I copy the .exe generated from the following to
news_root:news.exe and then delete it when the compress is done.

	write(5,10)
10	format('   *** News is down for maintenance. Try again later.')
	end


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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: WARNING!  ANU-News killer item
Date: 1 Oct 92 08:55:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: spcvxb.1992Oct1.045521.4008
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Sep30.224447.7223@iscsvax.uni.edu>, connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly) writes:
> The following article is roaming the net around just waiting to kill your
> NEWSPOST procedure with an access violation:

  We loaded that article "successfully" here under 6.1B4. I say "successfully"
because some of the headers look trashed. I can't tell at this point whether
that happened here or before it got to us.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
From: johnl@forthd.uucp (John Lebert)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Help restricting users
Keywords: 5.8 restrict
Date: 4 Oct 92 01:08:51 GMT
Reply-To: johnl@espace
Organization: Fourth Dimension, Portland OR

I am running version 5.8.  Here is what I would like to do:
 
Allow new dialup users to my GUEST account to view News, but not
have the to post to the net. I have 300 newsgroups & I don't
really see an easy way to do this without Set newsg/restrict,etc.

Am I missing something?  Would the new version allow me to place
restrictions on the user, as well as the newsgroups?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
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 Fourth Dimension                     Modem (9600): (503)236-5068 
 Portland, OR                                Voice: (503)234-4364 
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                Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to continue....
From: david@hccw.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Alternate method for adding news
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:20:33 PDT
Organization: Health Care Computer Works, Las Vegas, Nevada

At the end of this message is the abstract file describing an alternate
approach to added news received from the network.

The files necessary can be obtained by sending the command:

SEND NEWS_ANEWS.PACKAGE

in the body of a mail message to VMSSERV@hccw.com

(ps. this is a new mail server, so if you experience any problems, please
contact me directly)
-- 
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Senior Systems Programmer                      Voice: (702) 364-8633
Health Care Computer Works                       FAX: (702) 364-0776
Las Vegas, NV                               Internet: david@hccw.com
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NEWS_ANEWS Package:

This package uses a alternate method for adding news from the net.

At our site, it takes about 2 minutes of CPU to load news.  The news batches
we receive over the net average about 50 blocks and we receive between 100
and 200 batches a day.  At 100 batches, NEWS consumes 5000 minutes of
CPU just loading its self!

To solve this problem, we added a new logical to the NEWS system:

NEWS_APPEND_BATCH

If this logical is not defined or defined to FALSE, then NEWS functions
in the normal manner. 

If the logical is defined to TRUE, then the NEWS_RNEWS procedure simply
uncompresses the news batch and appends the to a large batch.  Then once
every two hours, the procedure NEWS_ANEWS executes and add the large batch
into news.

This procedure has greatly reduced the load NEWS places on our system.

Please report and bugs or comments to DAVID@HCCW.COM
From: jonathan@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: NEWS_STOP logical and NEWS logicals generally.
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:41:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Melbourne

Configuration:   VAX 6000-420  VMS v5.4-3   NEWS v6.1B4   Multinet v3.1
                 NO caching of message ids.

(Trivial) Problem:

When NEWS_STOP is defined (/system /exec), NEWS correctly starts up, displays
the following message and immediately exits:

  NEWS is currently locked - forced image exit (LOGNAM)

Unfortunately, no newline character is included and the DCL prompt overwrites
the start of the message.  NEWSLOCK.C is the source file.

I wonder if a more meaningful message for users might not be appropriate?
Perhaps a logical name which contains a message could be displayed if it exists?

On a related note: logical names in NEWS: does anyone have documentation which
contains a *complete* current list of logical names in NEWS (both process and
system), including a *full* description of their usage and effects?  This
would be very useful to have in the NEWS documentation.

Thanks,
Jonathan.
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From: newsmgr@vax1.utulsa.edu (Beelzebub)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: ADD BATCH/DELETE question
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:59:57 CST
Organization: The University of Tulsa

I have a question about the command Add Batch/delete.  When does NEWS get
around to deleting the files it has added?  I am watching it's progress, and it
is moving on to the next batch file, but the old ones still exist in the
directory.  Does it delete them all when the process exits?
-- 
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! The University of Tulsa               *   minus one; it could not be thought
! Computing and Information Resources   *   out because it was beyond reason."
! newsmgr@vax1.utulsa.edu               *   --Eugene Zamiatin
From: goppelt@scfb.nwc.navy.mil (dave goppelt)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: "0" baud rate
Date: 2 Oct 92 00:36:09 GMT
Organization: Naval Air Warfare Center

Here's an interesting problem (and a workaround):

A user connects to the VAX from his Macintosh and a Pathworks link via a LAT
service.  When the user finally gets to the VAX and does a SHOW TERMINAL, his
input/output baud rate is "0".  When he tries to invoke ANU-NEWS, he gets the
message "NEWS: Not a terminal - /NOSCREEN mode used".

NEWSUTILITY.C looks at a terminal's baud rate to determine whether or not
ANU-NEWS is being executed in batch mode.  Now, you can use a SET TERM/SPEED=
to set a value, and ANU-NEWS is happy.  (What would be a proper code fix?)

Who would have thought of a valid interactive terminal connection with a "0"
baud rate??  ;-)

				dave
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                  			          goppelt@scfb.nwc.navy.mil
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: dhenchoz@ulci20.unil.ch (Daniel HENCHOZ)
Subject: NEWSRC.TEMPLATE
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:48:30 GMT


Hello !

We are ruuning ANU_NEWS v6.03 in client mode. I would
like to create a NEWSRC.TEMPLATE file to allow the users
who are using NEWS for the first time to automatically
be registered to the news.announce.newsusers newsgroup.

Thanks in advance for your help.


					Daniel
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From: laut@keego.gici.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Tuning and X-Window Questions
Date: 7 Oct 92 02:08:09 GMT
Organization: Gull Island Consultants, Inc.


Hello,

Is there an X-Windows client for ANU-NEWS?  If not, is somebody developing
one?

I would also like to solicit from the readership any anecdotes, commentaries,
and general information regarding system tuning issues they have had to
address, which is not covered in the release notes, doc set, etc.

Since this is our first attempt at receiving the Network newsfeed, I
"innocently" selected a MicroVAX-II (:^}) as our news machine.  I realized
I was running into problems when the uVAX could not keep up with the batch
files that were being submitted to it.  In order to speed things up, I did
the following action items:

	1)  Re-autogen, in order to blow the doors off of the ACP parameters
	    (i.e., make them ridiculously large).

	2)  Modify the source code in NEWSUTILITY, NNTP_SERVER, and
	    NNTP_XMIT to modify the "util_dir/util_undir/util_cnvrt" routines,
	    so that the periods in the directory name are substituted for
	    dollar signs.  This has the effect of placing all of the
	    newsgroups into the same root directory, instead of having
	    multiple tiers of subdirectory trees.

	3)  I also stripped off the NEWS subdirectory from NEWS_ROOT:[PUBLIC],
	    since the subdirectory does not accomplish anything (that I can
	    determine).

Suggestion:  Could you make the ADD BATCH command multi-threaded, so that
NEWS will process more than one batch file simultaneously?  In tinkering
around, I've noticed an improvement if you run three or four posting jobs
simultaneously (with appropriate renaming of the filename types to separate
the streams) instead of running just the one.


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From: jonathan@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Multinet NNTP problems.
Date: 30 Sep 92 01:40:32 GMT
Organization: The University of Melbourne

Configuration:   VAX 6000-420  VMS v5.4-3   NEWS v6.1B4   Multinet v3.1
                 NO caching of message ids.

Problem:

When NEWS_STOP is defined (/system /exec) the following OPCOM message is
generated frequently at first, then at 10 minute intervals until the logical
name is deassigned:

  %%%%%%%% OPCOM Message from user SYSTEM on HERMES %%%%%%%%
  MultiNet Server: Service NNTP pid 2020746F failed: deadlock detected

................................................................................
This problem above may be related to a problem which I recently posted to this
group and which is included again here for convenience (since response was very
limited last time :).

  Subject: NNTP_TCPWINMULTINET.EXE fails: Access Violation
  Message-ID: <1992Sep16.100233.3573@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
  Date: 16 Sep 92 10:02:33 +1000

  Problem:

    %%%%%%%% OPCOM Message from user SYSTEM on HERMES %%%%%%%%
    MultiNet Server: Service NNTP pid 2020889A failed: access violation,
    reason mask=!XB, virtual address=!XL, PC=!XL, PSL=

    %%%%%%%% OPCOM Message from user SYSTEM on HERMES %%%%%%%%
    MultiNet Server: !XL

  This problem occurs frequently here (up to several times per hour on
  occasion).  Anyone seen this?  Any known fixes?  Known side-effects of this
  problem?

Any help with these Multinet NNTP problems would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jonathan.
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Information Technology Services,     Fax:        +61 3 347 4803
The University of Melbourne,         Internet: jonathan@ucsvc.its.unimelb.edu.au
Parkville, Vic., AUSTRALIA, 3052.    PSI:      050523343000305::jonathan
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From: 00r0ravichan@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: SET SUPERVISOR problems
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:49:46 GMT

I am currently setting up a local newsgroup at our site
using ANU-NEWS software. I want to act as a supervisor
(VAX-VMS second level - add, delete users and delete postings if unnecessary).
When I open up the group the PROTECTION  on the top-line reads
"Prot:RWm". When I issue the command "SET SUPERVISOR" the system
stays put without ever responding. I have waited for as long as
15 minutes before I abort the news process and get out of news (Ctrl-Y).

I am not the VAX/VMS system adminstrator. I am a faculty member
who has been accorded the supervisor status for this particular local
group  by the system adminstrator.
From: connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: WARNING!  ANU-News killer item
Date: 2 Oct 92 08:39:47 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Oct1.045521.4008@spcvxb.spc.edu>, terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.) writes:
> In article <1992Sep30.224447.7223@iscsvax.uni.edu>, connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly) writes:
>> The following article is roaming the net around just waiting to kill your
>> NEWSPOST procedure with an access violation:
> 
>   We loaded that article "successfully" here under 6.1B4. I say "successfully"
> because some of the headers look trashed. I can't tell at this point whether
> that happened here or before it got to us.

The ACCVIO was on 6.0-3.
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Information Systems and Computing Services
University of Northern Iowa                       USWestNet: (319) 273-2357
Cedar Falls, IA  50614-0121                             FAX: (319) 273-3509
As time goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that elected officials 
should be required to pass a competency test.  Then we wouldn't have any, 
and all would be right with the world!
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From: lhotka@abel.incstar.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Newsgroup creation: VMS News - V6.0-3
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:04:40 GMT
Organization: Simpact Associates, San Diego CA

I recently installed VMS News - V6.0-3 (14-Mar-1991) and am having a problem.

News items which do not fit into an already existing newsgroup used to go to
JUNK.  Now, all of a sudden, a newsgroup gets created for them automatically. 
We went from 200 newsgroups to 1200 in about a week due to crosspostings and
misspelled newsgroup names, etc.

I assume there is some parameter or control feature I need to change to make
ANU News _not_ create newsgroups without my approval and to put items in JUNK
if they don't fit elsewhere??

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: messy columns on terminal
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:22:47 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Oct6.111743.9708@augustana.ab.ca>, bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca writes:
> This probably isn't a news problem, rather a terminal configuration
> problem, but News is the only software we have that causes it, so I hope
> you don't mind if I ask it here.
> 
> 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.

> Sterling G. Bjorndahl, bjorndahl@Augustana.AB.CA or bjorndahl@camrose.uucp
> Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta, Canada      (403) 679-1516
-- 

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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
From: winter@vision.rs.ch (Martin Winter)
Subject: WISH: highlighting of all search-term
Reply-To: winter@vision.rs.ch
Organization: RadioSuisse Ltd, Berne, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:37:03 GMT

Something to add to a wish-list. Until today, if somebody searchs for an
article with more then one search-word, only the first one gets highlighted
in the article.
I would really like it, if all search-words get highlighted. 

for example if I do a 
   SEARCH HATS&&CARS
only "hats" gets highlighted in the article.

Regards, 
   Martin Winter

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Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Alternate method for adding news
From: jfeldhouse@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:39:47 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

> NEWS_ANEWS Package:
> 
> This package uses a alternate method for adding news from the net.
> 
> At our site, it takes about 2 minutes of CPU to load news.  The news batches
> we receive over the net average about 50 blocks and we receive between 100
> and 200 batches a day.  At 100 batches, NEWS consumes 5000 minutes of
> CPU just loading its self!

I noticed a similiar folly at several sites here just recently.
News was starting up adding one file then exiting, repeating
this proceedure for many files.  I just modified the load news batch
job to start news and add several files.

I ran into a potential problem when using wildcards though, so
be careful.  Now I just add some 20 files one file at a time but
with only one news start per group.

jim