sid@friday.rtech.COM (Sid Shapiro) (09/27/89)
Hi there ANU admins, I've got an existing news (unix based) installation. I've installed ANU news 5.6 on some VMS hosts in our network. I want to keep local news databases on the VMS systems since the tcp/ip nntp is abysmally slow on the VMS side. I use NNTP to get the article titles then kludge a routine to bring the articles over. I originally wanted to use mail to do the transport, but 50% or more of the time ANU news doesn't recognize most articles coming out of inews on unix. I have not been able to figure out why one article is accepted and one isn't. And I've spent days on it. So I'm using the kludged up nntp transport. It works, except I frequently get "Title not obtained" messages on the VMS side. Apparently the unix active file shows the earliest existing article number and the latest. But it doesn't indicate that there may be holes in the numbering sequence, so ANU comes along and thinks that there are more articles than there really are. It seems that ANU occasionally thinks there are more articles that there really are for other reasons as well, but I haven't figured out those reasons for that yet. My bottom line question is, does anyone have a real stable ANU installation that correctly transfers articles with with a unix system? I'd like to exchange solutions/problems/ideas with you. Thanks, -- Sid Shapiro -- Relational Technology, Inc sid@rtech.com (415)748-3470