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                 Saturday, 28-Aug-1999 to Friday, 03-Sep-1999

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From: josepach@meganet.net                              28-Aug-99 01:10:17
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 03:31:25
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

From: josepach@meganet.net (Joseph Pacheco)

In a nut shell ProNews/2 beats any other newsreader out there. If you
don't think so, then you must be used to accepting less than the best.
No but really, try ProNews/2; you will be glad you did.

-JP 

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:05:41 GMT, coville@localnet.com (Brian) wrote:

>On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 04:13:51, "Lavinia" 
><MtLavinia_spamless@nospam.nym.alias.net> wrote:
>
>> Why would one use ProNews rather than PMINews or EmTec's news reader?
>>  
>Traded my copy of PMINews for a copy of ProNews.  Liked ProNews muchh 
>better.  Have you tried it?  SPent a couple hours getting use to it 
>and getting it setup to your satisfaction?
>
>	Brian
>
>

--In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God...light shineth in darkness...darkness comprehended it not.

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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          28-Aug-99 02:18:09
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 03:31:25
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:19:00, Ulrich_Voelker@sz2.maus.de (Ulrich Voelker) a
Úcrit dans un message:

> Hallo 
> 
> >pronews.dll  3  1053847
> >ProNews.exe  3    28934
> 
> I have these running  (dated 10.05.98, 23:03h) and no problems.

In response to several questioners and their quieter, more shadow-like 
brethren or sistren, here's what I know about ProNews v.1.50 (beta) 
versions:

I've seen (and have on hand) these:

  pn2_15b1a.zip    1,564,097  05/06/1998  15:28
  pn2_15b1b.zip    1,564,472  05/08/1998  00:00
  PN2_15B1c.ZIP    1,565,461  05/10/1998  17:50
  150_119.zip      1,544,384  06/04/1998  22:21

The file dates are adjusted to the latest date of an internal file. File 
names for all the PN2x files were originally PN2_15B1.ZIP when I got them, 
and were dated variously.

150_119.zip has been described to me as a "debugging" build, and only 
contains a few of the program files. It must be copied over an existing 
installation to work. This is the version I've been running, with the 
debugging stuff stripped out via LXLITE.

I haven't yet seen anything dates as late as October 5, 1998, as Ulrich 
speaks of, and since he mailed me the file now named PN2_15B1C.ZIP 
containing a PRONEWS.DLL with the same size, 1053847, and the file date May
10, 1998, I suspect this is a failure in "country" translation. (We presume
too much.)

Petri Taimisto spoke here some time ago of downloading a PN2_15B2.ZIP but I
haven't verified with him that this archive contained a later build.

Anybody know anything different? Or additional?


Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: xyxmadxyx@xyxziplinkxyx.xyxnetxyx                 28-Aug-99 13:18:28
  To: All                                               28-Aug-99 14:21:23
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

From: xyxmadxyx@xyxziplinkxyx.xyxnetxyx (mark davidson)

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:18:18, donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy 
Donnelly) wrote:

> > >pronews.dll  3  1053847
> > >ProNews.exe  3    28934

i've seen nothing this small on my system.  guess mine have all been 
debugging versions.

> Anybody know anything different? Or additional?

5-24-98  13:37       2,382,270           0  pronews.dll
5-24-98  13:38          74,458       3,084  pronews.exe

the above were in a file named 150ia109.zip and were the only updated 
files inside.  obviously, the '119' file is a later build.

the only recurring problem i have with '109' is that it doesn't like 
large newsgroups and once the header count is >= 50k, pronews likes to
exit without warning.  anyone know if '119' is available anywhere lest
it might solve this problem?

thanks/regards, ..


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From: luc.vanbogaert.nospam@pandora.be                  28-Aug-99 14:03:00
  To: All                                               29-Aug-99 15:49:08
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

From: "Luc Van Bogaert" <luc.vanbogaert.nospam@pandora.be>

On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:13:51 -0700 (PDT), Lavinia wrote:

>Why would one use ProNews rather than PMINews or EmTec's news reader?

Read my article on ProNews/2 at
http://users.pandora.be/luc.vanbogaert/pronews.htm


Luc Van Bogaert
OS/2 User Group Belgium
The Warped Site - http://users.pandora.be/luc.vanbogaert


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From: auofaq@locutus.ofB.ORG                            29-Aug-99 22:00:00
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 12:22:12
Subj: FAQ: pointer to alt.usenet.offline-reader FAQs

From: auofaq@locutus.ofB.ORG (a.u.o FAQ)

Archive-name: offline-reader/usenet/pointer
Alt-usenet-offline-reader-archive-name: pointer
Posting-Frequency: weekly
Last-modified: 1998-Jul-12
Intro-Last-modified: 1998-Nov-21
Software-Last-modified: 1999-Jul-13

[
  Please note that this message has a Followup-To: alt.usenet.offline-reader
  which directs all followups to that one group only.  If you see a response
  directly to this post which spams all the groups on the list, that user is
  either extremely rude or using very broken software.  In either case, they
  might benefit from you mailing them, and asking them to correct it.

  Also note that there are no opinions in this pointer -- it merely contains
  unrefutable facts about the *.answers newsgroups.
]

Alt.Usenet.Offline-Reader is about reading mail and news available to
your normal login account, but while you're not actually logged in.

The alt.usenet.offline-reader FAQ lists can be obtained via all
news.answers access methods:

quoting the news.answers FAQ:

``
		    Where are *.answers archived?

  All of the *.answers newsgroups are archived in the periodic posting
archive on rtfm.mit.edu [18.181.0.24].  Postings are located in the
anonymous ftp directories /pub/usenet/alt.answers,
/pub/usenet/comp.answers, etc., and are archived by "Archive-name".
Other subdirectories of /pub/usenet contain periodic postings that may
not appear in *.answers (as well as most of the *.answers postings),
saved by Subject line rather than by Archive-name.

  If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archives
by mail server as well.  Send an E-mail message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on
separate lines for more information.
''

The FAQ lists for alt.usenet.offline-reader can be found on the Internet:
  <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.usenet.offline-reader/intro>
  <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.usenet.offline-reader/software>
  <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/off-line-readers/usenet/intro/>
  <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/off-line-readers/usenet/software/>

Note that, despite the name including `usenet' and not `mail', discussion of
mail as well as news is welcomed (and common) in alt.usenet.offline-reader.

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From: commafaq@locutus.ofB.ORG                          29-Aug-99 22:00:00
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 12:22:13
Subj: FAQ: News and Mail: pointer to comp.os.msdos.mail-news FAQs

From: commafaq@locutus.ofB.ORG

Archive-name: msdos-mail-news/pointer
Comp-os-msdos-mail-news-archive-name: pointer
Posting-Frequency: weekly
Last-modified: 1998-Jul-12
Intro-Last-modified: 1998-Sep-27
Software-Last-modified: 1999-Jul-13

Comp.Os.Msdos.MAil-news == c.o.m.ma == comma
FAQ == Frequently Asked Questions

comma is about uucp, mail, and news for msdos or ms-windows or os2.

The comp.os.msdos.mail-news FAQ lists can be obtained via all
news.answers access methods:

quoting the news.answers FAQ:

``
		    Where are *.answers archived?

  All of the *.answers newsgroups are archived in the periodic posting
archive on rtfm.mit.edu [18.181.0.24].  Postings are located in the
anonymous ftp directories /pub/usenet/alt.answers,
/pub/usenet/comp.answers, etc., and are archived by "Archive-name".
Other subdirectories of /pub/usenet contain periodic postings that may
not appear in *.answers (as well as most of the *.answers postings),
saved by Subject line rather than by Archive-name.

  If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archives
by mail server as well.  Send an E-mail message to
mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on
separate lines for more information.
''

The FAQ lists for comp.os.msdos.mail-news can be found on the Internet:
  <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.os.msdos.mail-news/intro>
  <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.os.msdos.mail-news/software>
  <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-mail-news/intro/>
  <http://www.faqs.org/faqs/msdos-mail-news/software/>

Note that the charter of comp.os.msdos.mail-news _explicitly_ covers
mail, news, and uucp under msdos and compatibles, and used to cover
ms-windows and os2 until they got their own groups (although uucp
under ms-windows didn't, so it can stay).  the FAQs still list
information for os2 users and ms-windows users.

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From: windows.from.your.harddisk.arnol...               30-Aug-99 07:18:11
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 12:22:13
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

Message sender: windows.from.your.harddisk.arnoldvanovereem@iname.com

From: windows.from.your.harddisk.arnoldvanovereem@iname.com (Arnold van
Overeem)

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:18:18, donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly) wrote:

>  
> I've seen (and have on hand) these:
>  
>   pn2_15b1a.zip    1,564,097  05/06/1998  15:28
>   pn2_15b1b.zip    1,564,472  05/08/1998  00:00
>   PN2_15B1c.ZIP    1,565,461  05/10/1998  17:50
>   150_119.zip      1,544,384  06/04/1998  22:21
>  
> 
And here is another one:
    pn2_15b1d.zip 1,565,461  05/17/1998 15:15

remove windows from your harddisk to reply
==========================================
Arnold van Overeem
==========================================
Let's make the difference/2

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From: richard@NOSPAMwebtrek.com                         30-Aug-99 15:16:17
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:27
Subj: Pronews/2 problem.

From: richard@NOSPAMwebtrek.com (Richard R. Klemmer)

My Cable modem has recently switched to @home.  Now I can't load all 
the newsgroups under the "All Groups" tab in ProNews/2.  It gets to 
about 32000 or so when I select "Reload Newsgroup list", and then the 
application closes.  I can manually subscribe to groups, so it's not a
big issue, but I can't get the list.

FWIW, I can get the list of all newsgroups under Netscape Messanger 
4.61b2.

I'm running the 1.5 beta, but I couldn't say which one.  Under 
"Help:About" it just says 1.5B1.

-----------------------------
Richard R. Klemmer
richard@webtrek.com
http://www.webtrek.com
-----------------------------

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From: racette@cablevision.qc.ca                         30-Aug-99 16:20:03
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 16:56:27
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

From: racette@cablevision.qc.ca (Martin Racette)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:18:22, 
windows.from.your.harddisk.arnoldvanover
eem@iname.com (Arnold van Overeem) 
wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:18:18, donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)
wrote:
> 
> >  
> > I've seen (and have on hand) these:
> >  
> >   pn2_15b1a.zip    1,564,097  05/06/1998  15:28
> >   pn2_15b1b.zip    1,564,472  05/08/1998  00:00
> >   PN2_15B1c.ZIP    1,565,461  05/10/1998  17:50
> >   150_119.zip      1,544,384  06/04/1998  22:21
> >  
> > 
> And here is another one:
>     pn2_15b1d.zip 1,565,461  05/17/1998 15:15
> 
> remove windows from your harddisk to reply
> ==========================================
> Arnold van Overeem
> ==========================================
> Let's make the difference/2

where are they, I went to the Panacea 
site d/l the beta code and it's still 
the first one

//-------------------------
Thank you in advance

Merci a l'avance

Martin

http://205.237.57.73/

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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com                          30-Aug-99 21:13:19
  To: All                                               30-Aug-99 21:34:14
Subj: Re: Pronews/2 problem.

From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:16:34, richard@NOSPAMwebtrek.com (Richard R. 
Klemmer) a Úcrit dans un message:

> My Cable modem has recently switched to @home.  Now I can't load all 
> the newsgroups under the "All Groups" tab in ProNews/2.  It gets to 
> about 32000 or so when I select "Reload Newsgroup list", and then the 
> application closes.  I can manually subscribe to groups, so it's not a
> big issue, but I can't get the list.

Try manually deleting \PRONEWS\GROUPS.DAT (with the program inactive) then 
start the program and do Ctrl-L (Refresh Groups List).

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com


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From: falbof@theref.aquascape.com                       31-Aug-99 01:53:26
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 05:26:03
Subj: Re: ProNews versions?

From: falbof@theref.aquascape.com (F. Robert Falbo)

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 02:18:18, donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy 
Donnelly) wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:19:00, Ulrich_Voelker@sz2.maus.de (Ulrich Voelker) a
> Úcrit dans un message:
> 
> > Hallo 
> > 
> > >pronews.dll  3  1053847
> > >ProNews.exe  3    28934
> > 
> > I have these running  (dated 10.05.98, 23:03h) and no problems.
> 
> In response to several questioners and their quieter, more shadow-like 
> brethren or sistren, here's what I know about ProNews v.1.50 (beta) 
> versions:
> 
> I've seen (and have on hand) these:
> 
>   pn2_15b1a.zip    1,564,097  05/06/1998  15:28
>   pn2_15b1b.zip    1,564,472  05/08/1998  00:00
>   PN2_15B1c.ZIP    1,565,461  05/10/1998  17:50
>   150_119.zip      1,544,384  06/04/1998  22:21
> 
> The file dates are adjusted to the latest date of an internal file. File 
> names for all the PN2x files were originally PN2_15B1.ZIP when I got them, 
> and were dated variously.
> 
> 150_119.zip has been described to me as a "debugging" build, and only 
> contains a few of the program files. It must be copied over an existing 
> installation to work. This is the version I've been running, with the 
> debugging stuff stripped out via LXLITE.
> 
> I haven't yet seen anything dates as late as October 5, 1998, as Ulrich 
> speaks of, and since he mailed me the file now named PN2_15B1C.ZIP 
> containing a PRONEWS.DLL with the same size, 1053847, and the file date May
> 10, 1998, I suspect this is a failure in "country" translation. (We presume
> too much.)
> 
> Petri Taimisto spoke here some time ago of downloading a PN2_15B2.ZIP but I
> haven't verified with him that this archive contained a later build.
> 
> Anybody know anything different? Or additional?
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Buddy
> 
> Buddy Donnelly
> donnelly@tampabay.rr.com

I got what you describe as the "c" beta right around the time
it was released.  Panacea still has it available.  FTP.LEO
has the "b" beta on their site.  I looked for some announcement
email, but all I could find was an email from Bill about a problem
I had with the original 1.0 version.

-bob-

__________________________________________________________
F. Robert Falbo  | TheRef(tm) Drive & Controller Guide
OS/2 & BeOS      | http://theref.aquascape.com/theref.html

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From: falko.tesch@bigfoot.com                           31-Aug-99 07:20:03
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 11:04:19
Subj: Q: How to start PMMail/2 2.0 ignoring its .INI Parameters?

From: Falko Tesch <falko.tesch@bigfoot.com>

Hi,

I have PMMail/2 2.0 up and running here. I use two accounts.
The default settings for those accounts are _not_ to fetch any mail 
when opened.
Now I need a script/parameter that will start PMMail/2, lets it 
automatically fetch email from the two accounts and will close the 
program once all emails are received.
Anyone has a REXX script or so???
Thanks for your help.

CU/2
Falko



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From: richard@NOSPAMwebtrek.com                         31-Aug-99 13:17:02
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 14:56:01
Subj: Re: Pronews/2 problem.

From: richard@NOSPAMwebtrek.com (Richard R. Klemmer)

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:13:39, donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy 
Donnelly) wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:16:34, richard@NOSPAMwebtrek.com (Richard R. 
> Klemmer) a Úcrit dans un message:
> 
> > My Cable modem has recently switched to @home.  Now I can't load all 
> > the newsgroups under the "All Groups" tab in ProNews/2.  It gets to 
> > about 32000 or so when I select "Reload Newsgroup list", and then the 
> > application closes.  I can manually subscribe to groups, so it's not a
> > big issue, but I can't get the list.
> 
> Try manually deleting \PRONEWS\GROUPS.DAT (with the program inactive) then 
> start the program and do Ctrl-L (Refresh Groups List).

That did the trick.  Thanks.  I had a similar problem with Netscape 
Messenger where I could create filters.  To fix that I just edited out
a bunch of spaces that got put in the "description" field in the 
rules.dat file for the only filter I could create.

Weird, but at least both are working. :-)

-----------------------------
Richard R. Klemmer
richard@webtrek.com
http://www.webtrek.com
-----------------------------

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From: jmprice@calweb.com                                31-Aug-99 13:10:03
  To: All                                               31-Aug-99 20:08:13
Subj: Re: Q: How to start PMMail/2 2.0 ignoring its .INI Parameters?

From: John M Price PhD <jmprice@calweb.com>

In comp.os.os2.mail-news article <19990831.7200764@ft-4015.stardiv.de> Falko
Tesch <falko.tesch@bigfoot.com> wrote:
: Hi,

: I have PMMail/2 2.0 up and running here. I use two accounts.
: The default settings for those accounts are _not_ to fetch any mail 
: when opened.
: Now I need a script/parameter that will start PMMail/2, lets it 
: automatically fetch email from the two accounts and will close the 
: program once all emails are received.
: Anyone has a REXX script or so???
: Thanks for your help.

Gee.  Does this need to be run from a chron?

I open the program, hit Alt-F2, close the program when it's done, unless
there is mail I need to deal with immediately - which does happen.

Not a lot of work.

-- 
John M. Price, PhD                                     jmprice@calweb.com
Life: Chemistry, but with feeling!      |      PGP Key on request or FTP!
  Email responses to my Usenet articles will be posted at my discretion. 
Comoderator: sci.psychology.psychotherapy.moderated          Atheist# 683
                     Syndicate Section III - Number 1

Honest folk do not wear masks when they enter a bank.
          - Unspiek, Baron Bodissey

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From: chili@ibm.net                                     01-Sep-99 01:29:07
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 10:43:24
Subj: Post Road Mailer and FP11 ...lost folders...still

From: chili@ibm.net (Gerry Chilibeck)

When I installed fp11 6 weeks ago...I began to lose sight of the mail
folders in PRMailer V3.0.  The folders and files still exist, the
folders just disappear in the application.   Several others reported
the same problem.

Apparently FP11 changed the dating of files...or something.  I
discovered there is a (cumbersum) work-around by...turning off the
archive bit with a file program of a missing folder...then it
reappears in the application...until you use it and close it...and it
is gone again.

I have scanned usenet for a possible solution finding none. 
Apparently, if HPFS386 is used with fp11, the problem is gone.

I am reluctant to back out to FP9, just for this in the hope that
someone finds/found a solution....that I cannot find :(

Ideas.... anyone??



...Chili at ibm dot net....Eh!

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From: lazaga1@ibm.net                                   31-Aug-99 19:25:11
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 10:43:24
Subj: PostRoad mail folder lost

From: Paul Lazaga <lazaga1@ibm.net>

A copy of the previous post for good measure:


"I posted a question about this on th internal news group ... here is 
the
response, hope it helps .. I havn't tried it yet


HPFS had a bug, that was fixed in fp11, due to which the last accessed 
date
and
last modified date were not updated when the EAs of a file were 
touched. But,
this fix seems to have broken some applications that assume this 
behaviour.
With

FP12, this fix will be backed out to restore the old behaviour.

Use HPFS.IFS from fp10 and see if the problem goes away.


Regards Ian     

Ian Godwin
SSD Test Group
IBM Hursley Park"

-- 
Paul Lazaga, eMail: lazaga1@ibm.net
WTW Group, Los Gatos, California, USA
Tel: 408-378-8636, Fax: 408-378-5927
Web: http://www.wtwgroup.com



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From: aboritz@cybernex.net                              31-Aug-99 22:14:23
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 14:27:06
Subj: Re: Q: How to start PMMail/2 2.0 ignoring its .INI Parameters?

From: aboritz@cybernex.net (Alan Boritz)

In article <37cc369e@calwebnnrp>, John M Price PhD <jmprice@calweb.com> wrote:
>In comp.os.os2.mail-news article <19990831.7200764@ft-4015.stardiv.de> Falko
Tesch <falko.tesch@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>: Hi,
>
>: I have PMMail/2 2.0 up and running here. I use two accounts.
>: The default settings for those accounts are _not_ to fetch any mail
>: when opened.
>: Now I need a script/parameter that will start PMMail/2, lets it
>: automatically fetch email from the two accounts and will close the
>: program once all emails are received.
>: Anyone has a REXX script or so???
>: Thanks for your help.
>
>Gee.  Does this need to be run from a chron?
>
>I open the program, hit Alt-F2, close the program when it's done, unless
>there is mail I need to deal with immediately - which does happen.
>
>Not a lot of work.

Well, yes, it could be, if there's a lot of mail to pick up and you don't want
to pick it up just then.  I used to run Postroad Mailer that way with a
command line argument to pick up mail unattended for two accounts and then
exit to a batch file that ran the poll event.  When I changed to Pmmail, I
lost that ability, since there is no equivalent command line argument (one of
the few times that Southside answered tech support email).

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From: duanec@eyebm.net                                  01-Sep-99 00:18:24
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 14:27:06
Subj: Changi and new posts...

From: "Duane A. Chamblee" <duanec@eyebm.net>

I can't get posts to show up until I shutdown and restart CHANGI

Posting through PMINews or Communicator, then refreshing the news group never
shows any new posts.

Anybody know if this is supposed to work? Seems like it should.
I can't figure out if there is another process that needs to run(to update
the server) when a post occurs.

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From: tiemannj@gmx.de                                   01-Sep-99 14:44:22
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:19
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: Joerg Tiemann <tiemannj@gmx.de>

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:18:48 -0400 (EDT), Duane A. Chamblee <duanec@eyebm.net> 
wrote:
> Posting through PMINews or Communicator, then refreshing the news group
never
> shows any new posts.

Addressing this problem Paul Ratcliffe wrote on the Changi
mailinglist[1]:
> In the environment, I set CHANGIAUTOFLUSH=5 which causes Changi to
> flush itself every 5 seconds. This gives timely appearance of locally
> posted articles, without putting undue load on the server whilst
> receiving articles (well, it does on my system, YMMV).

  Hope that does the trick for you. But even though I have not set this
variable (defaults afaik to 60s), slrn 0.9.5.7[2] shows new articles 
within the minute; I just posted and canceled (because I usually use a
mail2news gateway) this article and bothtimes the newsgroup could be
refreshed within the minute.

	HAND, Joerg
[1] to subscribe send a mail to listserv@gigo.com with
    "subscribe changi" (w/o the quotes) in the mailbody.
[2] and NS 2.02 news, too. Just tested this.
-- 
tiemannj@gmx.de

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From: jpedone_no_spam@flash.net                         01-Sep-99 14:39:06
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 17:47:20
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: jpedone_no_spam@flash.net

In <qhnarpvozarg.fhd5bc4.pminews@news3.ibm.net>, "Duane A. Chamblee"
<duanec@eyebm.net> writes:
>I can't get posts to show up until I shutdown and restart CHANGI
>
>Anybody know if this is supposed to work? Seems like it should.
>I can't figure out if there is another process that needs to run(to update
>the server) when a post occurs.

It's supposed to but I've had intermittent success with it.  Do you have
a set changiautoflush line in your config.sys?  That's the parameter 
that's supposed to do the update...  Depending upon the news reader you 
may have to start and stop the reader.

 
J. Pedone
jpedone@flash.net
http://www.flash.net/~jpedone
 
Windows Error: 005 - Multitasking attempted.  System confused.
Backups?  We doan *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx    NO CARRIER

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From: rwhutch@nr.infi.net                               01-Sep-99 20:42:27
  To: All                                               01-Sep-99 21:47:11
Subj: User Name configuration.

From: rwhutch@nr.infi.net  (R.W. Hutchinson)

	After several years, I finally got fed up with seeing "rwhutch" appear in
several contexts as "sender" and I have managed to get R.W. Hutchinson to
appear
on my Usenet posts, but I do not seem to be able to find the correct menu to
get
R.W. Hutchinson to appear as my name, as opposed to rwhutch, when sending
E-mail. [I CAN get it to appear on the "reply to" field, but not as "sender."]

	I am using the IBM Dialer, and Ultimate/2 Lite. Anyone know which menu I
should be modifying, and how?
--------------------------------------------------------------
"I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
-----------------------------------------------
R.W. Hutchinson. | rwhutch@nr.infi.net

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From: duanec@eyebm.net                                  01-Sep-99 23:41:26
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 06:35:00
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: "Duane A. Chamblee" <duanec@eyebm.net>

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:39:12 GMT, jpedone_no_spam@flash.net wrote:

>It's supposed to but I've had intermittent success with it.  Do you have
>a set changiautoflush line in your config.sys?  That's the parameter 
>that's supposed to do the update...  Depending upon the news reader you 
>may have to start and stop the reader.

Thanks for the reply, I set CHANGIAUTOFLUSH=5 and the articles still don't
show up.

I restarted PMINews and nothing. 

Restarting the servers SEEMS to do it, but sometimes I wont see the article
until I do a "View all articles" from PMINews. When this happens the articles
are already marked "read"

Very confusing...

I use CHANGI.CMD to start the server...

@echo off                                    
@call help off                               
                                             
SET CHANGIWORKDIR=W:\CHANGI\WORK             
SET CHANGIHOSTNAME=duanec.indelible-blue.com 
SET CHANGITEMPDIR=T:\TEMP                    
SET NNTPNEIGHBOR=news.interpath.net          
SET USER=DUANEC                              
SET CHANGIAUTOFLUSH=5                            
CALL CHANGI.EXE                              



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From: news@fenrir.demon.co.uk                           01-Sep-99 08:25:27
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 10:42:04
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: "Brian Morrison" <news@fenrir.demon.co.uk>

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:18:48 -0400 (EDT), Duane A. Chamblee wrote:

>I can't get posts to show up until I shutdown and restart CHANGI
>
>Posting through PMINews or Communicator, then refreshing the news group never
>shows any new posts.
>
>Anybody know if this is supposed to work? Seems like it should.
>I can't figure out if there is another process that needs to run(to update
>the server) when a post occurs.
>

Add SET CHANGIAUTOFLUSH=5 to your config.sys or nntp.cmd or however
else you start changi. Should help you out, it isn't documented...


-- 
Brian Morrison                                       news@fenrir.demon.co.uk

               to reply, change address from 'news' to 'bdm'

 ...Grim faced, cold as fishwife's fingers, he snatched from the wall
 the sickle-sharp boar tusks he used for defacing Readers' Digest....


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From: noone@llondel.demon.co.uk                         02-Sep-99 06:44:20
  To: All                                               02-Sep-99 10:42:05
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: "Dave {Reply Address in.sig}" <noone@llondel.demon.co.uk>

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:41:53 -0400 (EDT), Duane A. Chamblee wrote:
>
>I restarted PMINews and nothing. 
>
>Restarting the servers SEEMS to do it, but sometimes I wont see the article
>until I do a "View all articles" from PMINews. When this happens the articles
>are already marked "read"
>
There appears to be a hole in Changi somewhere - if I dump a load of
news in with RNEWS and I try to update news in PMINews before it's done
a flush, it seems to manage to "fetch" all the article numbers without
actually fetching anything but still managing to update the "last
fetched" to ensure I never see the articles unless I do a "view all
articles". This is a Changi feature because the Mac newsreader used by
my wife also does this. She gets really annoyed by this, more so than I
do.


Dave
-- 
mail dav e@llondel.demon.co.uk
http://www.llondel.demon.co.uk
Cricket: old English traditional variant of the rain dance.


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From: mike.luther@ziplog.com                            03-Sep-99 02:06:01
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 06:09:28
Subj: Re: PostRoad SYS3175 failure

From: mike.luther@ziplog.com

In <7qmfk5$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, dpewen@my-deja.com writes:
>This morning my Postroad application would not activate.  I am getting
>an OS/2 SYS3175 failure when I attempt to activate it.
>I know that Innoval is no longer supporting the product but if anyone
>can help me with this issue I would greatly appreciate it.
>I would also like to know if their is another OS/2 Mail product out
>there that can interface with Postroad.
>
>Regards,
>Douglas Ewen

Doug ... I  -- think -- I hit this once upon a time long ago and far
away.  I -- think -- I solved it by simply re-installing PRM over itself
and going through the setup files again ..  It's my impression that it
doesn't do anything to harm your message folders or anything like that
.. but that's a long time ago ..

//-----------------------------
Mike.Luther@ziplog.com
Mike.Luther@f3000.n117.z1.fidonet.org


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From: dpewen@my-deja.com                                02-Sep-99 18:28:18
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 06:09:29
Subj: Re: PostRoad SYS3175 failure

From: dpewen@my-deja.com

This morning my Postroad application would not activate.  I am getting
an OS/2 SYS3175 failure when I attempt to activate it.
I know that Innoval is no longer supporting the product but if anyone
can help me with this issue I would greatly appreciate it.
I would also like to know if their is another OS/2 Mail product out
there that can interface with Postroad.

Regards,
Douglas Ewen


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

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From: duanec@eyebm.net                                  03-Sep-99 01:28:10
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 11:24:27
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: "Duane A. Chamblee" <duanec@eyebm.net>

On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 06:44:40 +0100, Dave {Reply Address in.sig} wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:41:53 -0400 (EDT), Duane A. Chamblee wrote:
>>
>>I restarted PMINews and nothing. 
>>
>>Restarting the servers SEEMS to do it, but sometimes I wont see the article
>>until I do a "View all articles" from PMINews. When this happens the
articles
>>are already marked "read"
>>
>There appears to be a hole in Changi somewhere - if I dump a load of
>news in with RNEWS and I try to update news in PMINews before it's done
>a flush, it seems to manage to "fetch" all the article numbers without
>actually fetching anything but still managing to update the "last
>fetched" to ensure I never see the articles unless I do a "view all
>articles". This is a Changi feature because the Mac newsreader used by
>my wife also does this. She gets really annoyed by this, more so than I
>do.

I'm not even loading groups from another server. This is just a standalone
machine I wanted to have a NewsServer on. Changi seems to be the only one I
can find for OS/2.
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From: news@fenrir.demon.co.uk                           03-Sep-99 07:39:17
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 11:24:27
Subj: Re: Changi and new posts...

From: "Brian Morrison" <news@fenrir.demon.co.uk>

On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 06:44:40 +0100, Dave {Reply Address in.sig} wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 23:41:53 -0400 (EDT), Duane A. Chamblee wrote:
>>
>>I restarted PMINews and nothing. 
>>
>>Restarting the servers SEEMS to do it, but sometimes I wont see the article
>>until I do a "View all articles" from PMINews. When this happens the
articles
>>are already marked "read"
>>
>There appears to be a hole in Changi somewhere - if I dump a load of
>news in with RNEWS and I try to update news in PMINews before it's done
>a flush, it seems to manage to "fetch" all the article numbers without
>actually fetching anything but still managing to update the "last
>fetched" to ensure I never see the articles unless I do a "view all
>articles". This is a Changi feature because the Mac newsreader used by
>my wife also does this. She gets really annoyed by this, more so than I
>do.

Have you set CHANGIAUTOFLSUH=5 in your config.sys or changi start cmd
file? I find that everything is fine provided that I allow my
newsreader to auto update every so often.


-- 
Brian Morrison                                       news@fenrir.demon.co.uk

               to reply, change address from 'news' to 'bdm'

 ...Grim faced, cold as fishwife's fingers, he snatched from the wall
 the sickle-sharp boar tusks he used for defacing Readers' Digest....


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From: frank@consol.de                                   03-Sep-99 11:56:00
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 11:24:28
Subj: PMMail problem

From: "Frank Winkler @home" <frank@consol.de>

Hi there !

I have noticed the following problem for several times now: There are a bunch 
open windows where I compose new messages, most of them minimized. I switch 
between the windows and work on the mails, then iconify all of them ond so 
something else.
Some time later, I want to continue a very long mail, but its window is closed 

and the changes since the last "save" are lost!!! It seems that this only 
happens when there is more than one PMMail window ...

Any hints?

TIA

-- 
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Frank Winkler                                                frank@consol.de
ConSol GmbH
Franziskanerstr. 38                                   Voice +49 89 45841.180
81669 Munich - Germany                                  Fax +49 89 45841.199




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From: nomo@normanmo.clark.net                           03-Sep-99 06:33:11
  To: All                                               03-Sep-99 17:08:12
Subj: Re: PMMail problem

From: "Norm" <nomo@normanmo.clark.net>

On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 11:56:00 +0200 (CEST), Frank Winkler @home wrote:

>I have noticed the following problem for several times now: There are a bunch 

>open windows where I compose new messages, most of them minimized. I switch 
>between the windows and work on the mails, then iconify all of them ond so 
>something else.
>Some time later, I want to continue a very long mail, but its window is
closed 
>and the changes since the last "save" are lost!!! It seems that this only 
>happens when there is more than one PMMail window ...


     I have no idea why the window is being closed, but I'll suggest
another method for what you're trying to do.  If you start composing a
new message and decide you'd like to finish it later I'd suggest using
the 'save' feature.  All it takes to 'save' a message is to click on
the icon in PMMail's toolbar, and when you want to resume working on it
you can easily open it from the account's 'Drafts' folder.

 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm
--
 Note: Send any email replies to 'normanmo(at)clark.net' (of course
 you'll need to change the "(at)" to the correct symbol.



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