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 In article <828721134_OASIS_@ajrose.demon.co.uk>
  andrew@ajrose.demon.co.uk (Andrew Rose) said:-

> In article <828582512_OASIS_NEWS@yr-ynys.demon.co.uk>
>  Neil@yr-ynys.demon.co.uk (Neil Martin) said:-
>
>>>Has anyone succesfully managed to get Oasis and NOS to work with Magic 
>>
>>Yes
>>
>>>Any suggesions ???
>>
>>When you've finished doing your offline stuff with oasis quit it. Then 
>>run nos.ttp with the parameters 
>>
>Nahh.....far too complicated! Rename NOS.TTP as NOS.PRG and stick it onto 
>your desktop, then run it whilst OASIS is still in memory. Then all you 
>need to do is Unbatch News manually (and New Groups if you really want) 
>when NOS is logged off.
>
>Only downside is that it resets your clock back about 6 or 7 hours. Guy 
>had a fix for this but it only buggered up my newsfeed. As long as you 
>don't mind a mis-set clock this all works fine and you lose nothing. Resst 
>your clock after using OASIS if you need/want to....
>
>Hope this all makes sense. If not, e-mail Mr Swampdog cos he thought 
>of it first (ta, Guy!).

Now all I've got to do is remember what I did :-))

There's an enviromental variable Nos looks for which you have to slap 
into MAGX.INF

#_ENV TZ=GMT0

Now we're on GMT. Set Oasis to GMT also and in STARTUP.NOS change the 
line

time auto on

to 

time auto off

Now you have to rely on your own system clock which you keep at GMT so 
make sure it is not ahead of Demon's or you'll lose articles. I keep 
mine a couple of minutes behind.

I'm sure it would be possible to run the local time correctly, the 6 
hour or so correction was before I found out about the Nos TZ 
variable, so with some experimentation you could probably have time 
auto on back again. I just prefer not to have my clock messed with 
and GMT - less hassle when they decide to change the dates of BST etc.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk