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 In article <832134030_OASIS_NEWS@ajrose.demon.co.uk>
  andrew@ajrose.demon.co.uk (Andrew Rose) wrote:-

>After much fiddling, I'm currently logging on under a configuration which
>excludes NVDI 4 - it gives 3 bombs on selecting ICE when loaded. I've tried
>removing various other auto files and accs, but it seems to be NVDI which is
>causing most trouble.

     OASIS 2 and ICE were written on mschiners with NVD! 4 installed. In
fact we got NVDI 4 late January/Early Febuary and have no problems ata ll
with it.
 
>Interestingly, removing HSModem regularly dropped my baud rate to 9600:
>rebooting with it got me back upto 14400. NB this is running _under_ Magic,
>despite claims that Magic users don't need HSModem!
>
>One query: I can't seem to get toggling News Receive off to make any
>difference. I fancied trying downloading headers only of some of the larger
>newsgroups I usually avoid, but instead started getting said groups and had
>to exit manually. Despite selecting Get Headers, I've yet to be able to view
>the headers. I've also been unable to post a test to Demon.test - under NOS
>postings always left the machine before downloads began. What's the order
>under ICE? [BTW, is there a way of editing the last log-in time as with the
>DAT files under Oasis 1.35?]

     Why don't people read the @*!?&^�+ manual. I didn't write it for the
hel of it you know. Here is the relevant section of the manual!!

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     Group Details (Alt G), this allows you to edit the settings that 
define how each News group will be managed. There are 10 parameters that 
define a News group. Only the Sysop can access the Group Details function.

     Account, this is the Account that the News group being edited is 
active for. A News group may only be active for one Account at a time, 
this is to stop the same News articles being downloaded more than once.

     Expire Time, this is the amount of time in days an article will stay 
in the News database before you can expire it. For example, if the Expire 
Time is set to 1 day and you Expire a News group at 6PM on a Wednesday any 
articles that were downloaded before 6PM Tuesday will be expired.

     Interval, this is the number of days ICE will leave between downloads 
of articles for this News group. For example, if the Interval is set to 2 
days and you download articles at 6PM on Monday, ICE will not download 
articles until after 6PM on Wednesday for this News group.

     Last Access Date and Time, these two items are the date and time ICE 
last downloaded articles for this News group. So the next time ICE would 
download articles for this group is the Last Access Date and Time plus the 
Interval time. These fields are only active if the News Download Type for 
the Account the News group is avtive in is set to Date in the ICE.NET 
file.

     Last Article No., this is the last article by reference number that 
was downloaded for this News group. This field is only active if the News 
Download Type for the Account the News group is avtive in is set to Number 
in the ICE.NET file.

     There are four popups at the bottom of the Group Details dialog, the 
top left popup defines the Owner of the News group. The top right popup 
defines the News group Status. The bottom left popup defines the 
Censorship of a News group while the bottom right popup defines the 
Protection of a News group.

     Owner, this allows the Owner of the News group to be changed between 
Sysop and Multi-User. If the Owner is set to Sysop, only the Sysop can 
Expire, Mark As Read or Re-Index the News group, if the Owner is set to 
Multi, any User can carry out these functions.

     Status, this allows the Status of a News group to be set to Articles, 
Headers, All Headers or Inactive.
     Articles is the normal setting for News groups and ICE will always 
download the News articles since the Last Access Date and Time for this 
group.
     Headers, this tells ICE to only download the Subject line of each 
News article since the Last Access Date and Time so that you can select 
which articles you want to download.
     All Headers, this tells ICE to download ALL the Subject lines for the 
News group that are held by the News Server you download from.
     Inactive, this stops ICE from downloading ANY articles or Subject 
lines for this News group. The Junk News group is always set to Inactive.

     Censorship, this allows a News group to be restricted to Sysop access 
only, the Multi-Users will not be able to access this News group in any 
way.

     Protection, this allows the news group to be set to Guarded so that 
NO articles can ever be expired from it.

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     Hope this helps. 



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