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In article <19950519.185200.49@moffatt.demon.co.uk>,
          RobinM@moffatt.demon.co.uk (Robin Moffatt) wrote:

> On 18 May 1995 22:10:33 +0100 Frank Jukes (frank@fjukes.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> > In article <19950517.194311.96@callan.demon.co.uk>,
> >           simon@callan.demon.co.uk (Simon Callan) wrote:
> > 
> > > Having previously complained about Newbase losing articles, I've now
> > > noticed another oddity. Whenever it checks for new files, the LED on my
> > > floppy disc drive lights up - is Newbase trying to access a floppy disc?
> > > 
> > > As a result of this, my RiscPC freezes quite often, and then suddenly
> > > catches up with me.
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to downgrade to NewsBase 0.53, without major effort?
> > > 
> > > Simon
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm running 0.54m on my RISC PC without any problems....
> > 
> > Frank
> 
> And me :)
> Just one annoying thing; After downloading >300 messages I am told
> "13 (or so) new messages"

I'm now back up to 0.54m, having figured out what the problem was. If
you experiment with the SOUP transport, and then decide not to use, make
sure you *completely* remove all traces of experimentation.

If you have the transport properties for SOUP set to 'Check for
arrivals', but !SOUP_IN has not been seen, the new mail check appears to
assume that all the soup files are on drive 0, and starts checking that.

As for the odd count, I think its due to newsbase reseting the count
whenever you read a message, so if you start reading during the debatch,
the count keeps getting zeroed.

Simon

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