Archive-name: usenet/software/b/cnews
Version: 1.08 (March 1994)
Last-Modified: Fri Mar  4 17:38:12 EST 1994

This posting provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) encountered
in using, installing, maintaining, and interfacing to the C News software
package.

A companion posting, "news.software.b Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
<software_b_faq_770454615@nominil.lonesome.com>, complements
this one by covering general topics that frequently recur on this group.
Yet another posting, "News.software.b: Introduction to news.software.b"
<software_b_intro_770454615@nominil.lonesome.com>, serves as an
introduction to the group.

All these articles are repeated periodically for the benefit of new readers.

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Section Contents

• News Headers
• Table of contents.
• What is C News?
• What is the current release status of C News? Where can I get it?
• When will the next release of C News be? What will change?
• What do I do if I am having trouble with C News?
• Isn't installing C News troublesome?
• I'm trying to compile C News under SCO and I ...
• I'm trying to compile C News under SCO XENIX and I get ...
• I have problems with expiration: "no slash in article path".
• I have problems with "unbatcher out of sync."
• What happens if, due to an error, expire can't delete an article?
• Can different parts of C News run on different machines?
• Can you speed up expire by unlinking files in the background?
• I have trouble compiling the libbig library.
• Whenever I post, the Message-ID: header comes out as MessageID:.
• Mkhistory runs for a really long time.
• How can I clean up unused subdirectories in my news spool?
• How can I get C News to update the third field of the active file?
• Why is the Lines: header missing? How can I fix this?
• C News isn't forwarding articles with Distribution: world.
• Why does C News drop non-conforming articles?
• Is there documentation to aid converting from B News to C News?
• Is there documentation about the theory behind C News?
• When should I upgrade my current release of C News?
• Contributions to the C News FAQ.

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