Re: Trying to Locate Ken Gresham
From: Mikus Grinbergs (mikus@bga.com)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:00:54 -0600
In article <Nob5ych4wSvc088yn@light.iinet.net.au>,
jtucker@light.iinet.net.au (Jim Tucker) wrote:
>
> One other trap is ISP changing to remote server. Then uqwk needs to
> be recompiled and name of server added to the environment. Same if they
> have changed the location of news.
My ISP has twice switched the hostname (and IP address) of the
computer system on which the news server runs.
I just set the environmental variable NNTPSERVER before calling uqwk.
This overrides whatever uqwk has compiled in as its default.
mikus