Aunc.3168 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb Wed Mar 17 08:52:37 1982 Re: checknews + readnews = ...eh? I've had similar experiences, and I've complained that whatever else readnews does, it should leave things in a state checknews will understand as meaning "no news". The thing to do is to use "-vv" on checknews to find out why it's complaining. The two causes I found to be fairly common were newsgroups with no articles, and .newsrc lines with only a group name but no article list. I believe that the former is fixed in the latest update, but I'm not totally certain. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.