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In article <815655933snz@squiznet.demon.co.uk>
           squiz@squiznet.demon.co.uk "Paul Colclough" writes:

> I'm currently using KA9Q 2.16d as installed by DIS216D.EXE, now I don't
> know if there is a later version that fixes these bugs as ftp.demon is
> still down, but the problems I'm having are:
> 
> Sometimes ka9q will try to access its history file as
> /demon\spool\news\history
> instead of
> \demon\spool\news\history

This sounds like a configuration error, but it seems odd that it
should be inconsistent. I would suggest that you carefully check
your configuration, in particular the NEWS DATA directory. Press 'G'
at the DIS main menu for General configuration, then 'A' to configure
general options: the third item ('NEWS DATA DIRECTORY') should
be C:\DEMON\SPOOL\NEWS, assuming that your demon stuff is all
on C:\DEMON

> Also, telnet doesn't seem to like KA9Q, I'm trying to telnet into
> sunsite.unc.edu, but get no "login:" prompt, just two strange characters,

Have you tried telnet to other sites?  If the problem is only with
that one site, then it may be at fault, otherwise I would suspect either
a configuration error or a corrupted KA9Q.

Have you tested the integrity of your installation files?  It could be
that they were somehow corrupted.  Try pkunzip -t dis216d.exe, and
likewise with any other zip files involved -- I think that dis216d.exe
includes other zip files, which you will have to extract to check.

> Now, can anyone tell me if I can remove the "News arrived" message after
> every news article? When I'm telnetted to a remote site, after a while
> KA9Q seems to freeze everything until I press F10 so that it can print out
> all the "News arrived (2/1028) etc..." lines then it gets back to normal.

KA9Q is probably running out of memory: it doesnt have much to spare, 
and it has to allocate memory for those lines until it displays them.

Your AUTOEXEC.NET will, by default, contain the line 'nntp verbose on';
to get rid of these messages, change this to 'nntp verbose off'.
You can also issue this command once you are running KA9Q.

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/ Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /