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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

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