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 In article <823659354_OASIS_@harold.eastky.com>
  darchyld@harold.eastky.com (Ronald J. Hall) said:-

> In article <823637620_OASIS_@husbands.demon.co.uk>
>  Simon@husbands.demon.co.uk (Simon Husbands) said:-
>
>>>
>>>What you have to do is add the new groups onto the end of the "nntp 
>>>newsgroups" line of your starup.nos. For some reason Oasis does not 
>>>seem to handle this properly.
>>
>
>
>   I had the same problem happen to me and I went into Startup.nos and 
>   deleted all the nntp lines that listed newsgroups-then I manually
>   entered all the newsgroups (Atari-related ones of course!) that I 
>   wanted (from the Oasis menu-bar) and everything works fine now...
>
>   (BTW: that startup.nos file can be a real bear, huh?!)  :)

Leave startup.nos alone basically. The two important files are 
NNTP.DAT and ACTIVE.DAT.

nntp.dat stores the groups to download. The first line lists the 
server and the last connection and it must start in position zero. 
Subsequent lines have some whitespace and list the groups which will 
be downloaded. This continues until another left justified line 
appears which is the name of the next server and its list of 
newsgroups. Normally there is only one server but is useful for when 
you have a choice of connections. You can also find the same server is 
listed twice which is a bug and is the primary reason people cannot 
get oasis to download news from new groups they add.

active.dat lists the groups again and the filenames (just numbers) 
which oasis uses to store information about the group.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk