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From: kathy@wrcola.UUCP (K.M.Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.software.b,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX PC and news software...
Message-ID: <843@wrcola.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 03:34:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: wrcola.843
Posted: Sun Aug 23 03:34:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 22:14:46 EDT
References: <15@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: kathy@wrcola.UUCP (K.M.Vincent)
Organization: AT&T, Winston-Salem, NC
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Keywords: news, bugs, unix-pc
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In article <15@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>
>I have compiled the network news programs 2.11 on my UNIX pc with the
>shared library stuff and I am experiencing some weird uux errors.
> ...
>If there is more than one compressed batch waiting to be uuxqt'd then
>I get this strange error.  The 1st batch works, and it trashes the rest.
>Please help!!


Ah, hello hello hello.  How well I recognize THAT problem.  I was
having it myself.  But only between my 3B2 at work and my UNIX pc,
as far as I could ever tell.  News between my UNIX pc and every
other machine I talked to (including a VAX, a 3B2, and several UNIX
pcs) seemed to be working fine.  I tested things a bit further
by sending some batches of news from the 3B2 to another friend's
UNIX pc - same problem.  But again, neither of us was having any
problems (that we noticed, anyway) with news coming in from other
machines.  And my friend and I were running different versions
of HDB and different kernels.

I never did figure out what the problem was, and, like one of
the problems I was having with my modem, it disappeared one day
shortly after I installed a test HDB, and I no longer get those
messages.  All jobs between my 3B2 and my UNIX pc complete
normally.

Unfortunately, the only thing about that story that helps you -
for the moment anyway - is knowing that you aren't alone ...  


>Also how should I set it up so it knows about world, comp, unix-pc 
>distributions, it keeps on saying 'world' unknown distribution, 'comp'
>etc...

Do you have a "distributions" file in your news LIBDIR?
It's been a while since I compiled news, but I believe
you set up disributions as part of setting up a config file.


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