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4.1. | I have installed KDE 3, but KNode does not exist in the K Menu. |
Does the Internetentry exist? If not, maybe the kdenetwork package isn't installed (perhaps because your distribution possibly doesn't do this for you); if the entry is there, but you do not have a KNode item in it, you should try to open a Konsole and run KNode from there. Type
% knode &
If an error message appears that tells you that KNode could not be started or found please check whether the file knode exists in $KDEDIR/bin and that its permissions are correctly set. | |
4.2. | When I start KNode, a message appears in the task bar but suddenly disappears without KNode being started. |
Try to start KNode from the Konsole (see previous question) and keep attention for the messages displayed there: if they do not make sense to you mark them with your mouse and copy it to the clipboard; then, ask for help on one of the KDE mailing lists or KDE news groups. | |
4.3. | I need an important article, but KNode doesn't have it any more; where can I find this article? |
You can find some extensive usenet archives at groups.google.com or AltaVista; they even contain articles that are several years old. | |
4.4. | How do I open and read several articles at the same time? |
Open the article with Open in own window. | |
4.5. | My articles do not appear in the newsgroup. |
When you publish an article it may be some time until your news server has it; wait several hours before you send the article again. | |
4.6. | I want to keep an article; how do I archive it? |
Choose the article in the article view and then use File->Save to open a file dialog; you can then save the article to a file. Another possibility is to copy the article to a folder. | |
4.7. | Some set headers do not appear for several articles in the article window; am I doing something wrong? |
This is not unusual because many headers are optional and often not contained in articles; in this case KNode does not show those header lines. | |
4.8. | Sometimes I see an article which refers to other articles but KNode does not show any references; why is that? |
This happens when somebody posted an article in another news group and checked the option Followup To; the article in question is then sent to your news group, but the referring article is absent. In many cases the poster tells the reason for his choice to set a followup. | |
4.9. | When I want to answer an article an error message appears telling me that the external editor could not be started, but the editor is correctly set. |
Have a look whether you entered the place-holder for a filename after the editor command; if not, enter it. If you want, for example, to use KEdit enter kedit %f If the %f is absent, your editor cannot be run. | |
4.10. | Why can I not receive data from my local news server? |
If you use KNode together with with a local news server, you must make sure that this server is correctly set up and started; for further details, please consult the documentation of your local news server. TipThe availability of the local news server can easily be verified with the telnet program: open a console and type: % telnet localhost nntp Followed by that, the news server should respond with: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.16 running at konqi.org You can quit the telnet session with: % quit If that does not work there is either no local news server set up or the server was not started; in this case, please consult the documentation of your local news server. If you are trying to connect to a news server on the Internet you need, of course, an open (dial-in) connection and to have set up KNode to use your ISP's news server; your ISP should be able to give you information about which news servers you can use. |
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