Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:07:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: usenet list?
Yep, you can do that also. I need to do that using the xt version, and by
the way, that version works much faster when telnetting.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Nettamer List wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:13:36 -0500
> From: Nettamer List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Ronald C. Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Nettamer List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: usenet list?
>
> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:53:59 -0800
> From: "Ronald C. Dailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: usenet list?
>
> On 2001-03-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 23:15:11 -0800
> >Hi there; I have been trying to get the usenet list to work
> >properly for me and i can't figure out how to.
> >What happens is I tell it to update the usenet group list and it
> >does. Igets this huge list, then when I go back into setting usenet
> >groups to download, It takes a few minutes while it processes the
> >list. Then I try to ask for and find ( van.forsale ) and it won't
> >find it. Yet it is one of the usenet groups on the server. C an
> >anyone tell me what is going on?
> >Any hints or suggestions will be appreciated.
>
> It is possible that the list Net-Tamer is getting from the server is
> larger than it can entirely display and that van.forsale is beyond the
> point at which the list exceeds the available memory. I _think_ the
> limit is something just over 32000 lines, depending on available DOS
> memory. If you have a text editor that edit large files _or_ a copy of
> Vernon Buerg's LIST.COM, you can open USENET.FOR and find the group(s)
> you want and extract them to another file, e.g. USENET.NEW. Then, you
> can rename USENET.FOR to USENET.OLD and rename USENET.NEW to USENET.FOR.
> Net-Tamer can handle the much smaller file just fine.
>
> Ronald Dailey
>
>
>
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