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 -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
