Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!prlb2!kulcs!kulesat!esat!elsen From: ELSEN@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Marc Elsen) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: RE: NEWS create command,how about /NOINQUIRE ? Message-ID: <1397@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Date: 9 Aug 89 14:08:21 GMT References: <8908070818.AA17461@uunet.uu.net> Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,ESAT - dep. Elect. Engineering, Belgium Lines: 44 In article <8908070818.AA17461@uunet.uu.net>, munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) writes: > Marc Elsen writes -- > >> I would like to know if the following NEWS command can be used WITHOUT >> the /inquire flag : >> >> NEWS> create newsgroup */server=SERVERNAME/protocol=decnet/inquire >> >> When one removes the /inquire flag from the above command news >> returns with : >> 'Newsgroup : * (NEWS.SYS Filter rejects news groupname)' ! ??? > > > The /INQUIRE name is used to flag the action of requesting the named server to > supply a list of all newsgroups, and the local system then requests the user if > the newsgroup should be created - > > perhaps the answer is to use a different verb for an automatic "catch-up" of a > client system to a particular server -- UPDATE springs to mind, but it is > already used - how about: > > UPDATE/CLIENT [/SERVER=node] [/PROTOCOL=protocol] > > which would create all newsgroups currently held on the server which are not > already defined on the client system?? > This would be just fine for me ! -- Marc Elsen (System Manager/Software Engineer) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Dep. E.S.A.T. Kard. Mercierlaan 94 3030 HEVERLEE Belgium tel. 32(0)16220931(ext. 1080) EMAIL : elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be ...!kulcs!kulesat!elsen (UUCP) elsen%kulesat.uucp@blekul60 (BITNET) psi%02062166012::elsen (PSI MAIL)