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From: MRT@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michelle R. Thibault)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: News 5.8A patches/updates??  Help!
Message-ID: <9589@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 19:24:41 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
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Hi all!!

  I've recently installed News v5.8A here and I seem to be having some
problems.  First of all, the nntp server is *very* slow and there seem
to be some posting problems.  Have I missed some patches somewhere along
the line?  I have a whole series of messages from Geoff that claim to be
patches (in SLP format) for 5.8A, but either I don't know what I'm doing
(never used EDIT/SUM before) ;-), or I'm attempting to apply these to
the wrong versions of the files -- if, indeed, these patches should be
applied at all.  Can anyone who has a working version of 5.8A (or B, if
one ever came out), explain to me if there were patches that I'm missing
or what I'm doing wrong?

  BTW, I ftp'd 5.8 from kuhub along with the update procedure and ran
all that, so what I need to know is if there are patches that were
supposed to be applied after that, and if so, which ones and are they
the ones I have or do I have to find them somewhere else??

  Also, I don't know if this is a fixed problem or not, but we're
getting a lot of NNTP_*_1.tmp files created in our news_manager
directory.  Anybody have an idea about these and why they aren't going
away?  Is this just another part of our posting problems?

  Thanks in advance for any assistance!!!

Michelle

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