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 In article <832501428_OASIS_@almond.demon.co.uk>
  tony@almond.demon.co.uk (Tony Ogilvie) said:-

>Hi, Can Anyone please help me!!
>
>I'm having a couple of problems with Oasis 1.34E (as follows):
>
>        1. My NNTP.DAT file is being ignored. The only active 
>newsgroups seem to be those listed under 'nntp groups' in the 
>STARTUP.NOS file. I have read the 'NNTPCLI.TXT' file and tried 
>everything I can think of - No luck :-( Any ideas?

First of all - leave the original groups in STARTUP.NOS unchanged. 
Also, the information in ACTIVE.DAT and NNTP.DAT need to be 
synchronised.

sample ACTIVE.DAT ...

comp.sys.atari.announce 95723641 1
comp.sys.atari.programmer 99714241 0
comp.sys.atari.st 98792114 0
comp.sys.atari.st.tech 91842217 0
demon.announce 70175474 0
demon.answers 99762537 0
demon.archives.announce 93760829 0
demon.ip.developers 92574025 0
demon.ip.discoveries 90882132 0
demon.ip.support 97894243 0
demon.ip.support.atari 98543648 0
demon.ip.support.pc 92512014 0
demon.tech.atari 95700528 0
demon.tickets 97641146 0
junk 00000000 0

Sample NNTP.DAT ...

news.demon.co.uk 960519 190308

        comp.sys.atari.programmer
        comp.sys.atari.st
        comp.sys.atari.st.tech
        demon.announce
        demon.answers
        demon.archives.announce
        demon.ip.developers
        demon.ip.discoveries
        demon.ip.support
        demon.ip.support.pc
        demon.ip.support.atari
        demon.tech.atari
        demon.tickets
        comp.sys.atari.announce

The most likely cause is NNTP.DAT has two server entries which causes 
all groups after that to be ignored.

>        2. When first using Oasis, each time I logged on all the dial 
>commands were echoed to the screen. VERY useful-you get a good idea of 
>what's going on. Also, when exiting, each of the servers echoed a 
>message to say that they were being shut down.
>
>        Now whenever I log on I get the standard NOS Ver 0.42, etc.. 
>banner immediately followed by the net> prompt - no dialling commands. 
>I can't see why as (AFAIK) none of the STARTUP.NOS or DIAL.SCR has 
>changed. I'd like the echoing back please ...... but how!

I forget the usual way of doing this as the method I use is simply to  
remove "dial sl0 dial.txt" from STARTUP.NOS and assign "dial sl0 
dial.txt" to a function key and hit it once Noshas started.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk