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 In article <825625938_OASIS_@coconut.demon.co.uk>
  mike@coconut.demon.co.uk (Mike) said:-

>Just to show I am a complete novice in certain things ;-)
>
>How does one go about downloading binary files from groups such as 
>alt.binaries.celebrities ?
>
>I'm told that there's a nice picture of Kylie ;-) in here, but although 
>added to my active groups, nothing gets collected. Do I have to do 
>something extra?
>
>Feel a prat or what............
>
>ATBeST
>Mike

I've had a problem with downloading certain newsgroups.
First of all make sure that your Startup.nos file has the correct
news server listed, mine has the following line in it :

         nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 5000

The problem I had was that some groups worked and some didn't.
I found a file called nntp.dat in \spool\news\.  For some reason
part way down the file was a line listing a different news server.
Once this line was removed all the newsgroups came through OK.

I felt like a prat the next time I logged on because it downloaded
everything from several newsgroups that I had picked but not got
anything from.  I had added a group, got nothing and picked another
without removing the first.  It took quite a time to finish getting
all of it I can tell you.

Hope this helps.


Rich.

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   Richard Elwell                        rich@rjelwell.demon.co.uk
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