🚀 go-pugleaf

mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:

> I'm not able to get past the following screen and need a little
> help.  I sure like the idea of zipping a newsgroup for off-line
> reading.
>
> Cannot open user's output text file.
>
>  0:35  E:\BIN>zn root local     (this is my invocation from the shell)

The key cause of this problem is that the ZN.CFG "temporary" parm contains
a pathname that does not exist.  And that can result from either of the
following:

 - You've specified something like d:\work%node%   and never set the
   NODE environment variable (so the system looks for d:\work, which may
   not exist), OR
 - You've never created the directory that has been correctly named.  For
   example: d:\work1, d:\work2, etc., one for each BBS node, have not been
   created although properly named and the NODE environment variables have
   been set.

(The next release will explicitly display the pathnames/filenames that
cannot be found/created.  Such would provide better "clues" as to the setup
problem.)

> Anyone else trying to use ZIPNEWS yet?

I certainly hope so.  Otherwise, I could be wasting my time working on the
companion ZipNews Reader/Mailer.  :)

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