[Dxspider-support] News messages

ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca ve1drg at av.eastlink.ca
Sun Jan 14 22:29:12 CET 2007


On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> Ted Gervais wrote:
>> At 07:49 PM 1/14/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>>> Ted Gervais wrote:
>>>> I have a silly question here.  I used to be able to see a whole list
>>>> of  'news messages' on my DXspider screen when I hit the letter 'l'.
>>>>
>>>> I don't anymore and am wondering how I had that working?
>>>>
>>>> I read the docs today and searched for messages, and news but never saw
>>>> where that is enabled.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone please..
>>> Works for me. What happens if you type 'dir'?
>>
>>
>> When I type dir, all I get is "No messages found"
>>
>> I had read in the docs that that is all you had to do. But this doesn't do
>> it ..
>>
>
> er.. are there any messages? Have a look in /spider/msg (c:\spider\msg)
> and see if there are any files called something like: m055639 (m + 6
> digits). If there are none, then you don't have any messages. If you
> *do* have some then please post a directory listing.
>
> Dirk G1TLH

Thanks Dirk.. I appreciate your assistance.

Here is what I have in the /spider/msg directory:

sysop at ve1drg:/spider/msg$ ls -al
total 44
drwxrwsr-x  4 sysop spider 4096 2007-01-14 17:21 ./
drwxrwsr-x 25 sysop spider 4096 2006-10-24 11:04 ../
-rwxrwxr-x  1 sysop spider    2 2004-07-31 14:14 .cvsignore*
drwxrwsr-x  2 sysop spider 4096 2006-02-05 23:17 CVS/
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  spider    2 2007-01-14 17:21 Msgno
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  spider    2 2006-12-04 09:26 VK4TRS7
-rwxrwxr-x  1 sysop spider  918 2001-08-24 19:04 badmsg.pl.issue*
drwxrwsr-x  3 sysop spider 4096 2005-02-09 11:22 distro/
-rwxrwxr-x  1 sysop spider 1396 1999-02-15 12:10 forward.pl.issue*
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  spider  127 2007-01-14 17:21 m000002
-rwxrwxr-x  1 sysop spider 1263 1999-11-24 14:37 swop.pl.issue*
sysop at ve1drg:/spider/msg$




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Ted Gervais
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia
Canada. (ve1drg)



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