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- UPGRADING INSTRUCTIONS FOR SNEWS V1.91
- ======================================
-
-
- UPGRADING FROM V1.08 THROUGH V1.90 TO V1.91 OR GREATER
- ======================================================
- Commands shown are examples and may differ from the commands required on
- your system.
-
- 1. Delete
- - snews.exe
- - unbatch.exe
- - expire.exe
- - addgroup.exe
- - rmgroup.exe
-
- 2. Copy the above list of NEW .exe files from the distribution archive
- to whereever the old ones were.
-
- UNZIP SNEWS191 *.exe
-
- 3. Make a backup copy of your ACTIVE file in case something goes wrong
- during this step.
-
- COPY ACTIVE ACTIVE.BAK
-
- Next, use a text editor to change the last column in the ACTIVE file.
- All newsgroups appearing in your NG file should have "y" appearing last
- on the line. All other newsgroups should have "n". At this stage, you
- could change the moderated newsgroups to "m" instead of "n" for
- compatibility with future versions of SNews.
-
- Now, delete your NG file -- it is no longer required.
-
- WARNING: be careful editing your ACTIVE file. Change only the letter
- in the last column. Changing anything else could render your newsbase
- unusable. News groups should be added with addgroup, which has new
- options to set up moderated and non-postable groups.
-
- 4. Move your user.NRC file to your home directory and call it SNEWS.NRC
-
- MOVE \uupc\news\user.NRC \user\SNEWS.NRC
-
- or
-
- COPY \uupc\news\user.NRC \user\SNEWS.NRC
- DEL \uupc\news\user.NRC
-
- 5. Use a text editor to change the color lines in your uupc.rc file. The
- old format looked like this:
-
- color msgf blu
-
- The new format is like this:
-
- colormsgf=blu
-
-
- 6. Use of the environment variable UUPCUSRRC has been restored, so SNEWSRC
- is now optional if UUPCUSRRC is valid.
-
-
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-
-
- UPGRADING FROM V1.06 AND BELOW TO V1.08 OR GREATER
- ==================================================
-
- 1. Delete
- - snews.exe
- - unbatch.exe
- - expire.exe
- - addgroup.exe
- - rmgroup.exe
- - compress.exe
-
- 2. Delete your entire news database (sorry folks).
- - delete all the article files
- - delete all the directory tree.
-
- 3. Copy the above list of NEW .exe files from the distribution archive
- to where ever the old ones were.
-
- 3a) When installing version 1.90 or greater of SNews, you must create
- a SNEWSRC variable in DOS. This should be in the same format as
- your UUPCUSRRC variable:
- set SNEWSRC=E:\uupc\snews.rc
-
- Now create a SNEWS.RC file. The easiest way is to copy the
- PERSONAL.RC file to SNEWS.RC, then see the docs on how to
- customise this file.
-
-
- 4. Rename your active file. You will be making a new one
-
- REN ACTIVE ACTIVE.OLD
-
-
- 5. Copy the active file as a bat file.
-
- COPY ACTIVE.OLD JUNK.BAT
-
-
- 6. Delete all the numbers etc to the right of the newsgroup names, should
- look like:
-
- alt.sources
- alt.sources.d
- nz.archives
-
-
- 7. Insert the string 'addgroup ' before each newsgroup name
-
- addgroup alt.sources
- addgroup alt.sources.d
- addgroup nz.archives
-
-
- 8. Run the bat file to create the new active file
-
- JUNK
-
-
- 9. Have a cup of tea, this take a few minutes. Check that the active
- file looks like this:
-
- alt.sources 87297268 00000000 00000000 y
- alt.sources.d 87297275 00000000 00000000 y
- alt.sources.index 87297281 00000000 00000000 y
- alt.sources.patches 87297287 00000000 00000000 y
-
-
- 10. All should be go - try processing a newsbatch
-
-
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> WARNING <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
-
- NEVER change the active file with and editor. Use 'addgroup' and rmgroup'
- to maintain the active file.
-