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Subject: re: TEsting out WinQvt/Net
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Date: 25 May 91 00:04:20 GMT
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In article <kevinc.675125509@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) writes:
>I'm testing out WinQvt/Net version 1.6 that I downloaded from
>cica.cica.indiana.edu.  The documentation says that it provides a
>simple news reader if an NNTP server is available.  We have an NNTP
>server for news and I've set up my NEWS.RC file and I've identified the
>hostname and activated the nntphost setting.  It still doesn't work.
>
>Anyone got any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
 
Make sure you nntphost setting ~=ip address but points to a configuration in your
host configuration area. Your PC also has to be a registered host on a nameserver
that the newserver knows about.

Email me your qvt_tcp.rc file and I'll take a look at it.