derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) (06/14/91)
How do you post a new article in "TheNews"? It would appear that you cannot post to a group that has no mail. That is, the "post new" menu item is greyed out unless you are inside the group. Also, how can you read old (already read) articles? The "unread" command is greyed out unless you are in the group. Solving that problem would solve (sort of) the first problem. -- = Enjoy! = = John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, Cellular Infrastructure Group = = e-mail: motcid!derosaj@uunet.uu.net, n1111@applelink.apple.com = =I do not hold by employer responsible for any information in this message =
gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) (06/14/91)
In article <6610@crystal9.UUCP> derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes: > How do you post a new article in "TheNews"? > > It would appear that you cannot post to a > group that has no mail. That is, the > "post new" menu item is greyed out unless > you are inside the group. > > Also, how can you read old (already read) > articles? The "unread" command is greyed > out unless you are in the group. You have to be in the group in order to post a new message, but you can go into the group even if there is no new mail in it. Just double-click on the group name, and a window will come up to show you all the headers of new articles. Now, that window *will* be empty since there are no new articles, but at that point you just select "Post New..." from the menu. The second question is a bit trickier. I haven't read the manual for TheNews yet, but I think the only way you can do that is to change your preferences settings. Turn off the "only show unread articles" option, click "Okay" (instead of "Save"), and then double-click on the group you want to see. You'll get the headers for all articles which are in that group. Hmm, I guess the first one might require a preferences change too, depending on how your preferences are set. If you have the "only show groups with unread articles" preference on, you'll have to turn that off and re-open your newsgroup file. Then the newsgroup will be listed even though it has no new articles. I always run with that option off, though. - - - - - - - - Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@rpi.edu or gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
kgustilo@pennsy.med.jhu.edu (06/14/91)
In article <_08k3n=@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn) writes: >> Also, how can you read old (already read) >> articles? The "unread" command is greyed >> out unless you are in the group. >The second question is a bit trickier. I haven't read the manual for TheNews >yet, but I think the only way you can do that is to change your preferences >settings. Turn off the "only show unread articles" option, click "Okay" >(instead of "Save"), and then double-click on the group you want to see. >You'll get the headers for all articles which are in that group. > >Hmm, I guess the first one might require a preferences change too, depending on >how your preferences are set. If you have the "only show groups with unread >articles" preference on, you'll have to turn that off and re-open your >newsgroup file. Then the newsgroup will be listed even though it has no new >articles. > When you are in the groups window, command+d followed by command+a also works I am not responsible for comments that I post after 0230 EDT or after 5 cups of coffe, whichever comes first watch this space