Re: Trying to Locate Ken Gresham
From: Jim Tucker (jtucker@light.iinet.net.au)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 14:50:10 +1030
mikus@bga.com (Mikus Grinbergs) said:
>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.
This is what I do too, Mike. I meant when the ISP *changes* to a remote
server but is still running a version of uqwk compiled using Makefile
instead of Makefile.nntp.
I wonder if our man has found Ken Gresham :-)
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jimbo
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