Re: How do I use slrn?
Hallo John,
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, you wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:31:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > When I run slrn --spool, I get a screen with one row:
> >
> > --> U 20 comp.os.linux.announce
>
> OK. Try pressing S for subscribe with the comp.os.linux.announce line
> highlighted.
>
> then press enter to see if you have any messages to read.
>
> If that doesn't work highlight comp.os.linux.announce again and press
> Escape 1 <return>
>
> If you have any messages that should let you see them read or unread.
Thank you for your reply. I am still experiencing problems and will be
gratefull if you can advise me.
What you suggested did not work for some reason.
Today, when I ran slrn --spool, I got a screen with one row:
--> U 0 comp.os.linux.announce
Pressing S removed the U
When I pressed
Escape 1 <return>
I got the message at the bottom line:
comp.os.linux.announce: Read how many? (default: 20)
When I press enter then, I get the message
No unread articles found.
I then deleted all the subdirectories in /var/spool and did a slrnpull
again. That did not change the behaviour of the program.
Here is the last part of the logfile:
02/13/1998 08:41:48 slrnpull started.
02/13/1998 08:41:48 Reading /var/spool/slrnpull/slrnpull.conf
02/13/1998 08:41:48 Connecting to host news.saix.co.za ...
...
02/13/1998 08:41:53 Fetching articles for comp.os.linux.announce.
02/13/1998 08:41:55 comp.os.linux.announce: Retrieving articles 1-8753.
02/13/1998 08:41:55 comp.os.linux.announce: 23 articles available.
02/13/1998 08:41:55 comp.os.linux.announce: Only retrieving last 20 articles.
...
02/13/1998 08:44:10 comp.os.linux.announce: 20/20 (0 killed), Time:
00:02:17, BPS: 677
02/13/1998 08:44:10 A total of 92796 bytes received, 496 bytes sent in 142 seconds.
dir /var/spool/srlnpull/comp/os/linux/announce produces
8734 8736 8738 8740 8742 8744 8746 8748 8750 8752
8735 8737 8739 8741 8743 8745 8747 8749 8751 8753
There must be then at least 20 unread articles available. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you for your patience.
Johann
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