Re: SLRN woes

[Anthony Campbell <acampbell@achc.demon.co.uk>]

On 15 Feb 1999q, Victor Torrico wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Using the latest potato version of SLRN.  No matter which news server I use,
> when I do a slrn -create, it only creates a tiny version of the entire news
> list into ~/.jnewsrc_XXX.  How do I get the full list from the news server?
> 
> slrn -d works fine.  slrn_getdescs works fine.
> 
> Perplexing.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Victor
> 

It's not peculiar to the potato version. I get the same thing in hamm. I've
had to download the "active" file separately and abstract the entries I
need.

Anthony


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