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Re: ZipNews Door for Waffle in BETA Release

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From: Michael D. Maxfield
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:42
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In article <yP8yXB2w165w@slic.cts.com> mikey@slic.cts.com 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)

Did you set the extra enviroment commands?  Is there a User directory for
root with a join file?  (probably not the last two...but>>>) Is there
a temporary directory in the location where the pointer points?  If 
you left the "J:\temp" intact, then you had better have a drive "J" 
(either RAM disk or real disk).

One problem I found with this program, is that while most of the 
scan pointers are reset to the last message downloaded, a few groups have
their pointers reset back to the first message that exists in the group.
I've tried to isolate out the problem, and the closet I can fiqure is that
in the groups that this happens, the ones and tens digits of the highest
message is lower than the ones and tens digits of the lowest message....

IE:  479-556   would reset the pointers to 479
but  520-590   would reset to 590

?????
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Message-ID: <1993Jan27.004228.11509@netcom.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!tweek
References: <g8BPXB1w165w@nlbbs.UUCP> <yP8yXB2w165w@slic.cts.com>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!tweek
From: tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield)
Subject: Re: ZipNews Door for Waffle in BETA Release
Message-ID: <1993Jan27.004228.11509@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <g8BPXB1w165w@nlbbs.UUCP> <yP8yXB2w165w@slic.cts.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:42:28 GMT
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