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<chapter id="faq">
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<title>Questions and Answers</title>
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<qandaset>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>I have installed &kde; 3, but &knode; does not exist in the <guimenu>K</guimenu> Menu.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Does the <guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu>entry exist? If not, maybe the tdenetwork 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 <guimenuitem>KNode</guimenuitem> item in it, you should try to open a &konsole; and run &knode; from there. Type</para>
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<screen><prompt>%</prompt> <userinput><command>knode &</command></userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>If an error message appears that tells you that &knode; could not be started or found please check whether the file <filename>knode</filename> exists in <filename class="directory">$<envar>TDEDIR</envar>/bin</filename> and that its permissions are correctly set.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>When I start &knode;, a message appears in the task bar but suddenly disappears without &knode; being started.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>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.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>I need an important article, but &knode; doesn't have it any more; where can I find this article?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>You can find some extensive usenet archives at <ulink url="http://groups.google.com/usenet/">groups.google.com</ulink> or <ulink url="http://av.com">AltaVista</ulink>; they even contain articles that are several years old.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>How do I open and read several articles at the same time?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Open the article with <guimenuitem>Open in own window</guimenuitem>.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>My articles do not appear in the newsgroup.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>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.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>I want to keep an article; how do I archive it?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>Choose the article in the article view and then use <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to open a file dialogue; you can then save the article to a file. Another possibility is to copy the article to a folder.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Some set headers do not appear for several articles in the article window; am I doing something wrong?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>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.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Sometimes I see an article which refers to other articles but &knode; does not show any references; why is that?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>This happens when somebody posted an article in another news group and checked the option <guilabel>Followup To</guilabel>; 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.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>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.</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>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 <userinput><command>kedit</command><token> %f</token></userinput></para>
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<para>If the <token>%f</token> is absent, your editor cannot be run.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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<qandaentry>
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<question>
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<para>Why can I not receive data from my local news server?</para>
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</question>
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<answer>
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<para>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.</para>
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<tip>
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<para>The availability of the local news server can easily be verified with the <command>telnet</command> program: open a console and type:</para>
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<screen><prompt>%</prompt> <userinput><command>telnet</command> <parameter>localhost nntp</parameter></userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>Followed by that, the news server should respond with:</para>
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<screen><computeroutput>
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Trying 127.0.0.1...
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Connected to localhost.
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Escape character is '^]'.
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200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.16 running at konqi.org
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</computeroutput>
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</screen>
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<para>You can quit the <command>telnet</command> session with:</para>
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<screen><prompt>%</prompt> <userinput>quit</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>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.</para>
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</tip>
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<para>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 <acronym>ISP</acronym>'s news server; your <acronym>ISP</acronym> should be able to give you information about which news servers you can use.</para>
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</answer>
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</qandaentry>
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</qandaset>
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</chapter>
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