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From: kirk@braille.UWO.CDN (kirk reiser)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can any kind soul tell me how to get vn working?
Message-ID: <227@braille.UWO.CDN>
Date: 17 Feb 88 13:54:50 GMT
References: <701@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <623@csm9a.UUCP>
Reply-To: kirk@braille.UUCP (kirk reiser)
Organization: The Computer Braille Facility University of Western Ontario.
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In article <623@csm9a.UUCP> ngorelic@csm9a.UUCP (Bamf) writes:
>In article <701@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen the Greatest) writes:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 	I just compiled the version of vn I got from comp.sources.unix
>> 	Every time I runs it, it says, "No news".  Seems that it is not
>> 	connecting to the server or something...  Anything I did wrong?
>> 
>> 					- Stephen
>   Do you have an accessable .newsrc file?
>    (just a thought, I couldn't get mine working at all.)



Not only did I need a .newsrc file but an options line was also necessary
I used "options -n all" but I suspect it could be any groups of interest.
If you are also compiling inews there must be an active, log, and history
files in the news spool directory.  Well the news library directory anyway!
It can be pretty confusing.

  Kirk






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