[Virtualacorn-list] News messages not debatched in Pluto

[Ken Wright]

In article <4fed4686a7dave at triffid.co.uk>,
   Dave Symes <dave at triffid.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4fed3e133akcwright at ormail.co.uk>,
>    Ken Wright <kcwright at ormail.co.uk> wrote:
> > I have a RisCube and recently purchased !NetFetch3 for sending and
> > fetching email and news to be read on Pluto.  Formerly I used
> > !Voyager with Pluto on my RiscStation R7500 and find that      > > NetFetch
> > works fine on the R7500 and all email and news is debatched to
> > Pluto.  On VA however, although email is sent and debatched
> > automagically in Pluto, not so news messages.  News messages are
> > fetched OK, but are not debatched when the debatch button is
> > clicked on Pluto.  I have to shift-click on the Netfetch icon  > > and go to the file !NetFetch.Apps.!Newshound.News.folder and
> > drag-and-drop the file dunNews there on to the Pluto icon to
> > download the messages to Pluto then delete the dunNews file    > > ready for the next fetch.  Pluto transports are set exactly as > > they are on the R7500, i.e. Hermes for email and NewsHound for > > news.  I have a broadband connection.  
> > Has anyone any suggestions how to completely automate news
> > fetch/read on VA? 
> > Ken Wright

> This is how mine does it.
> Does your ...!NetFetch.Apps.!NewsHound.Config.Config file have   > the line?

Yes

> "runfetchend: Yes"  (Without quotes)

> If so, does the Newshound app dir have a,
> ...!NetFetch.Apps.!NewsHound.!FetchEnd file?

Yes

> If yes, open it, then open the !Run file it contains in a text   > editor, Bar out whatever is already in there (Shift \) and add   > the following line.

> IfThere <Pluto$Dir>.!Run Then run <Pluto$Dir>.!Run -news

Done 

> Save it, and hopefully Newshound will now auto debatch into Pluto.

> Dave S

Thanks for your reply, Dave.  I've done all that you suggested but
it still doesn't work.  It's not that manually importing news to
Pluto is difficult but it's irritating to find that on my R7500 it
all works OK but not on VA.  I'll do a little more fiddling around.
Thanks again, Dave.
Ken

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