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Date:Mon Dec 30 04:59:33 2000 
Subject:Re: ved_gn 
From:Luc Beaudoin 
Volume-ID:1001230.01 

To be more precise, I do see:

   Retrying connection. Please wait
    ;;; (Re-)starting connection to news server
    ;;; Connection complete

Luc
lucb
@telus.net

Luc Beaudoin wrote:

> I installed all the extras. I created a separated directory for the tar files. The
> INSTALL_EXTRAS script was relatively uneventful (as far as I could tell).
>
> But install_package gives me a message:
>
> ln: no match
>
> I notice that there is a comment file line in install_package saying that "ln -s" had
> been fixed by doing it in lib/ dir.
>
> $poplocal/local/lib does exist on my machine.
>
> This "no match" message might simply be due to the fact that this package (and
> vedmail) does not have any top level .p files (I guess some packages have them).
> ved_gn just has auto and help files. As long as my autolib path includes
> $poplocal/local/auto, and similarly for help, I assume it will be OK.
>
> Anyway, ved_gn is now doing something, but it keeps retrying the connection (line
> 1722 in ved_gn.p). (That message is quite brief).
>
> I have other news clients on that linux machine that work. And the NNTSERVER
> environment variable is set correctly. Telnet also works on that machine. I'm not
> familiar with the NNTP protocol (will look at the RFC later). Perhaps news.telus.net
> (my news server) doesn't like telnet.
>
> I'll have a closer look at it later.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luc