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From: rob@spirits.ka.sub.org (Roland Bless)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UUCP questions (and thanks)
Message-ID: <1819de5f.ARN017d@spirits.ka.sub.org>
Date: 24 Oct 90 22:01:51 GMT
References: <03652.@avignon.gbdt.oz.au>
Reply-To: rob@spirits.ka.sub.org
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Byteable Software Products, private, Karlsruhe (FRG)
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In article <03652.@avignon.gbdt.oz.au>, Dave Moore writes:

>       Now to new business.  DNEWS doesn't work at my site.  It keeps telling
> me that "there are no news articles".  Odd really, I can see HEAPS of the
> little things. ;-)

I've HAD the same problem, too.

>       The only way I can get it to see ANY articles is to first run ANEWS
> and not read anything.  Then DNews works perfectly.  Any ideas?

Use "Arn". I think it's another good alternative to dnews. It's similar to
the real "rn", but not so powerful, yet. It works with most UUCP-Software
(AmigaUUCP, AmigaUUCP Plus, CNews, JDCP, BRnews, etc...) and is RFC 1036
conform.
Unfortunately, there is no kill-file supported yet, but I'll implement it
as soon as I have the time (as author of "Arn", my statements may not be
objective... :-))!
But "Arn" has A LOT of other features, you ever wanted...
Maybe //\\migaUUCP Plus and "Arn" are already on "abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov"
(128.155.23.64): /incoming/amiga/uucp1.lzh uucp2.lzh
I don't have FTP access yet, but this will change next week or so... Then
I'll put an update of "Arn" (because the cancel-function was out of order
since V0.65) to abcfd20! At the moment, you only can get it with AmigaUUCP
Plus via FTP...
I'll announce further details on which site which version is accessable.

//\\migaUUCP Plus V1.02 bases on CNews and AmigaUUCP V1.06D.
You can spool news, expire them (history) and, for easier newsreading,
have an active-file. Naturally there are other features, I won't list here.
Uuuhh, I forgot: "Arn" and AmigaUUCP Plus run both under AmigaOS 2.0/A-3000
as A3000-owners report.

>       Dave.

Greetings,
 Roland

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