From: clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: ARn problems
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:18:20 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Private UUCP "Twig" Node
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00

        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
propogated, but they weren't.  That the first of my difficulties.  It seems
to be somewhat Arn's problem.  I'll explain :

        I have two different ways of posting news present in my .arnrc
file, one is always hashed out.  One is through postnews and the other is
through rnews.  I found that when using rnews, AUTOBATCH does not function.
 When I'm not feeding other small sites, I like to use AUTOBATCH so I
switched to postnews.  Postnews appeared to work just fine.  Eventually, I
figured that something was up because I was getting no replies to anything
(eventually including misc.test posts).  It appears that at least some of
the articles generated through POSTNEWS (allowing AUTOBATCH to function)
had two sets of Path: and From: lines.  One generated by Arn, and one by
Postnews.  I know that PostNews doesn't screw up with things like
Article-ID's - it only supplies one if one is not already present.  What
went on here?  Right now I'm making due with batching all articles by hand
(ie. typing batchnews).  In summary, I feel that there is something wrong
with  Dillon's postnews (or a releated program) to allow two Path: and two
From: lines, and a problem with Arn that you cannot explicitly state what
lines you want included in the temp. file that is to be passed to the
posting software (if this is in Arn v1.00, please forgive me, I haven't had
the time to read all of the docs yet.  Besides, arn v1.00 is another
story...).


        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
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?


     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
screen and goes merrily about displaying the group list.  Why is this?  I
can't post any articles without re-executing Arn with the '-p' option. 
I've browsed the manual and searched for keywords on these specific topics
but have found nothing.  I have read the Arn v1.00 beta rel2 manual
completely, however.  Good newsreader, a little quirky at times, however.

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