From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: Re: ARn problems
Date: 27 Dec 92 06:12:36 GMT
Reply-To: Kai 'wusel' Siering <wusel@hactar.hanse.de>
Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
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In article <pb4cs*BN0@prolix.apana.org.au>, Andrew Clayton writes:

% I sorted the active file and the grouplist. This works, except

Again, I doubt the .newsrc (.grouplist) needs to be sorted ...

% the grouplist determines the order of newsgroups appearing in the
% screen, and it is no longer in the order that I like.

That's the reason why I doubt this would be neccessary =:->

% I have a couple of problems, one that was there before in the
% alpha version, and another that is new.
%
% I use Matt Dillons UUCP 1.16D, I have to create an active file
% using ARNMASTER (with the -A flag).  This works fine.
%
% When I go to 'E' enter a new message, ARN insists upon putting in
% a header line Newsgroup:  as 'rec/arts/sf-lovers' instead of the
% standard 'rec.arts.sf.lovers'.  If I leave the '/' characters
% alone, then ARN doesn't complain BUT sendnews posts the article
% to my 'junk' newsgroup, because it sees the '/' chars, and throws
% up.
%
% If I [manually] change the '/' chars to '.', then ARN warns me
% about 'no known newsgroups in Newsgroups:  line', but will send
% it anyway, and sendnews does the right thing, and it works.
%
% Note that when I F)ollowup, the '.'s in the Newsgroup line are
% kept, but ARN still complains of 'no known newsgroups.
%
% My active file is in this format:
%
% alt/flame
% alt/peeves

Oops?! It REALLY should read like this:

uulib:news/active
---------------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
abqhh.general 0000000000 0000000000 y
abqhh.problems 0000000001 0000000001 y
alt.bbs.internet 0000000010 0000000009 y
[...]
--------------------------------------->8---------------------------------------

% My grouplist file is in this format:
%
% alt/flame:
% alt/peeves:

Again, it SHOULD read like:

uulib:.grouplist
---------------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
amiga.amok:
amiga.amok.lists:
amiga.amok.misc: ;42; 31-42
amiga.amok.programmer: ;3;
amiga.amok.relay: ;1;
amiga.amok.stgt: ;2;
amiga.c: ;1;
[...]
--------------------------------------->8---------------------------------------

% Perhaps my configuration is screwed. Roland is away for a week,
% but I'll put up my .arnrc config anyway.
%
% # Arn Config-File for AmigaUUCP-Version 1.16D
% UPDATEACTIVE
% NEWSDIR     UUNEWS:
% SAVENEWS    UUCP:usr/dac/News
% ACTIVEFILE  UULIB:active
% GROUPLIST   UULIB:.grouplist
% UUCONFIG    UULIB:UUConfig
% SEQFILE     UULIB:seq
% SCREENSW    YES
% QUOTECHAR   "> "
% TIMEOFFSET  +1000 GMT
% SIGNATURE   UULIB:.signature
% #RELAYVER    version 1.16D (AmigaUUCP)
% #POSTINGVER  version 1.16D (AmigaUUCP)
% SENDNEWS    rnews <%s ;%s
% SENDMAIL    sendmail <%s -f dac
% PATHTYPE    Domain
% CATCHUPXREFS Yes
% CUSTOMFONT topaz.font 8
% #These are options that might be set, they're currently commented out
% MAILOPTS   Date From
% #SENDMAIL    sendmail <%s -f rob
% #use SELFSEND only for Versions <1.08D (obsolete!)
% #SELFSEND    preprnews %s "rnews "
% #REPLY-TO    rob%spirits@foo.bar
% #SHELLWINDOW N CON:S*/0/0/640/200/Arn-CLI to test
% #SHELLWINDOW N T:temptest ;this is for file-output
% #EXTERNALPRG Y rx postit %s
% #SCREENDATA  640 256 1 PAL:LORES -INTERLACED
% #Set DOTDIRS to Y or YES for AmigaUUCP <=V1.15 (obsolete!)
% #DOTDIRS    Yes

     Maybe uncommenting this would help? I'm really wondering how you git
the slashes into your active and .grouplist ...

% #FILTER      spellcheck %s
% #XLIFETIME   60
% #PAGEROPTS    C
% #ASK-FOR-AUTOSELECT-FUPS
% #uncomment this entry if you have OS2.04 and setpatch <V37.27
% #CMDCLEARKLUDGE
% AUXEDITOR  vi
%
% Has anyone ANY clue as to why this '/' behaviour occurs?

     Not exactly, sorry. BTW, I'm not running the Dillon news
implementation, thus I can't tell you much about it's internals ...
			kai

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