From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: ARn problems
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 14:13:19 EST
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Organization: Private UUCP "Twig" Node
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In article <pb4cs*BN0@prolix.apana.org.au>, Andrew Clayton writes:

> In article <sdMbs*f10@lemsys.UUCP>, Craig Lemon VE3XCL writes:
> 
> >         Let's hope you can see this.  I've been posting to the net for a
> > couple months now (since installing ARn), thinking my articles were being
> 
> Here is your proof.

        Good stuff!

> >         I also decided to install Arn v1.00.  I had the seemingly popular
> > problem with the obsolete group syndrom.  I read the docs and got the
> > impression that the .grouplist had to be sorted alphabetically, not the
> > ACTIVE file.  Since arnmaster maintains the ACTIVE-file in my news
> 
> I sorted the active file and the grouplist. This works, except
> the grouplist determines the order of newsgroups appearing in the
> screen, and it is no longer in the order that I like.

       Well, after tinkering, I've got a sorted ACTIVE file but I still
have the .grouplist sorted the way I like it.  It's working so far (but I'm
hanging onto beta rel2.

> > software setup, WHY COULDN'T _IT_ ensure that it was sorted?  Arn crashed
> > everytime it tried to deal with the unsorted ACTIVE-file causing a reboot
> > to be required.  Also, upon inspection, I found a newsgroup in the ACTIVE
> > file twice (can.uucp if it matters).  Can't arnmaster check for duplicates?
> 
> I suspect the dup newsgroup caused ARN to crash.

        I removed this and I believe it still did.  It doesn't anymore. 
Also, beta rel2 didn't crash (it looks like the dup had been there quite
sometime).  I guess the crash on dup is a new feature of the release
version (?).  Something like that should probably have been anticipated as
part of the idiot-proofing of the program, and arnmaster should have never
allowed it in the first place.  It's unknown if the new arnmaster fixes
this as I manually removed the problem.

> >      Thirdly, it seems that I can no longer access many CTRL-key functions
> > (like post and Quick Quit (no .grouplist update).  It merely flickers the
> 
> Roland specifically mentioned that he culled a lot of the
> CTRL-key functions. You should read the doco that came with
> ARN100, and you should also check out the online help {H} because
> it's pretty informative. Especially if you don't like hunting
> through doco! :-)

        I recall that Roland removed many CTRL function.  My source of
information _IS_ from the online help.  I still can't quick quit or post. 
You talk about 'E'.  I'll look into that again.

[...remainder deleted as you seem to have figured it out yourself! :-)...]

> Dac
> --
> dac@prolix.apana.org.au              David Andrew Clayton.           // _| _  _
> dac@prolix.sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au      Canberra, Australia           \X/ (_](_](_
>                     <Using ARN on an Amiga 4000. Yay!>
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