Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: NEWS create command,how about /NOINQUIRE ? Message-ID: <8908070818.AA17461@uunet.uu.net> Date: 7 Aug 89 21:49:37 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS DiscussionReply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 35 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?? > p.s: Another suggestion for improvement : It would be nice if Ctrl-W (screen > refresh) also redefined the previously loaded keypad definitions. > Very handy if one is switching between terminal server sessions for > example. I'm a bit wary of this one - C-W is meant to be fast, and a reload of the keydefs would start slowing things down a bit... opinions? Geoff Huston