DAVIDLI@SIMVAX.BITNET (David Paschall-Zimbel) (01/19/90)
I am getting errors when running News for the first time. The error is:
%RMS-E-FNF, file not found
%RMS-F-INI, invalid internal file identifier (IFI) value
I get this message whether I am using the distribution version of NEWS.EXE or
the recompiled and relinked version [from sources...]
This is what the current directory structure looks like:
Directory SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS]
NEWS.HLB;2 NEWSSKIM.COM;2
Total of 2 files.
Directory SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS_MGR]
EXE.DIR;1 MAILPATHS.;1 NEWS.ALIASES;1 NEWS.DISTRIBUTION;1
NEWS.SYS;2 NEWS_ADDRESS.CNF;2 NEWS_POST.CC;2 NEWS_POST.CC;1
NEWS_POST.DEFAULTS;1
Total of 9 files.
Directory SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS_MGR.EXE]
NEWS.EXE;3 NEWS.EXE;1 NNTP_TCPCMU.EXE;2 NNTP_TCPCMU.EXE;1
Total of 4 files.
Grand total of 3 directories, 15 files.
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and these are the currently defined logicals:
"NEWS$DIR" = "SYS$SYSDEVICE:[NEWS]"
"NEWSDIR" = "UTILITY:[NNTP]"
"NEWSMAIL" = "DAVIDLI"
"NEWS_ADDRESS" = "SIMVAX.LABMED.UMN.EDU"
"NEWS_DEVICE" = "SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS.]"
"NEWS_MANAGER" = "SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS_MGR]"
"NEWS_MANAGER_DEV" = "SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS_MGR.]"
"NEWS_MGR_ID" = "DAVIDLI"
"NEWS_NODE" = "SIMVAX"
"NEWS_ROOT" = "SIMVAX$DKB200:[NEWS]"
"NEWS_TIMEZONE" = "CST"
(NEWS$DIR is for system announcements and NEWSDIR is for an NNTP newsreader)
I'm going pretty much by what the v5.8 documentation says, and cannot figure
out why things are bombing out.
VMS version 5.2, ANU-NEWS release v5.9c, documentation v5.8 (& VAX C 3.0)
Help would be appreciated.
-- David Paschall-Zimbel