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In <12ERrAALBh107h@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US> larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US (Lawrence T. Hardiman) writes:

>>2. In helldiver under Windows 3.1 I never see the contents of the newsgroups
>>   neither using join nor newsrc.

>I had this one. In my USENET file I had the statement:

>DEFAULT /dir=w:\news

>This statement had worked fine in plain vanilla Waffle 1.65. Using HellDiver
>I could not see any news. So, when all else fails, RTFM (Waffle's, that is).
>Although Tom Dell does not seem to explicitly state that the operand of the 
>/dir statement *must* be enclosed in double-quotes, the example provided 
>shows the operand in double quotes. After changing the statement to:

>DEFAULT /dir="w:\news"

>Note the enclosing double-quotes; HellDiver found the newsgroups OK.
>Maybe you have the same problem I encountered.

I wonder if the double quotes (or lack of them) truly are the problem. It 
may be a bit more esoteric:

I had double quotes around my newsdir specification earlier today. But
then I added Mathew's EXPIRE program to my Waffle and found that it was
not compatible with the double quotes, so I removed them. 

I then became fearful that my HellDiver wouldn't work, since I had read
the above message earlier in the day. So I fired it up. I'm in HellDiver
now (Win 3.1), and my /system/usenet file does NOT have the double quotes 
around the newsdir specification. Waffle still seems to work okay (1.65).

FYI, I have HellDiver use the JOIN file, so I can read from Waffle and 
still have an updated scan the next time I run HellDiver.

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