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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: NEWS create command,how about /NOINQUIRE ?
Message-ID: <8103@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 89 14:45:52 GMT
References: <8908061039.AA12213@kulesat.uucp>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <8908061039.AA12213@kulesat.uucp>,
 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

I am a little confused about this.  The /INQUIRE qualifier tells the CREATE
command to get the names of the newsgroups to create from the remote server.
If you don't specify /INQUIRE, then how would NEWS know the names of the
groups?

Perhaps your problem was that NEWS askes if each newsgroup should be created.
This could be fixed by adding a /NOCONFIRM option to the create command. I
agree, that would be nice.
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