Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Problems with ADD FILE under 5.8A Message-ID: <8910251058.AA06550@uunet.uu.net> Date: 26 Oct 89 01:34:49 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 37 X-cc: GIH900@uunet.UU.NET Again old mail, but I have had a number of personal mail items sent to me asking about the Digital written NNTP over DECnet for Ultrix:... Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 14:04:30 GMT From: TIM LAPIN >I am in the middle of installing news v 5.8 and would like to have a few >points cleared up. > >1) For a client installation, it says that no special installation is >necessary. Yet in the client upgrade section, it says that it's necessary >to install NNTP_DEC.EXE in the NCP database. Surely in all cases it is >important to have an nntp object listed? The answer is the task string used to connect to the NNTP server .. the default is now to use the string "TASK=NNTP" which assumes a connection via the DECnet account to NNTP.COM. This is compliant with Digital's Ultrix NNTP over DECnet implementation. Previous versions used the default connection string "NEWS=" which does require an entry in the known object list in the NCP database. The documentation has not been updated correctly for the lcient. >2) I am setting this vms client to feed off an ultrix server. Given this, >are the conditional compilation of NNTP_FEED and NEWSREMCLIENT with the >defininition DECNETSTREAM the **** only **** modifications? Or do I also >have to modify the object listed in point 1) as well? >p.s. If people like, I will keep a log of my experiences with a vms-ultrix > setup and will post or mail any bugs and fixes I find. There will be other changes to get this working, but NOT NCP database changes. I do NOT have access to a NNTP over DECnet implementation under Ultrix so I cannot make the changes first hand. I wold be grate for any comments in this area, as I suspect that I will need to get rid of the VAX C IO calls into DECnet and replace them with QIOW calls with appropriate IO$M_MULTIPLE modifiers and the TCP type code which breaks a stream into records to make this work reliably. Any help here is appreciated. Geoff