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<chapter id="faq">
<title
>Questions and Answers</title>

<qandaset>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para
>I have installed &kde; 3, but &knode; does not exist in the <guimenu
>K</guimenu
> Menu.</para>
 </question
> 
<answer
> 
<para
>Does the <guisubmenu
>Internet</guisubmenu
>entry 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 <guimenuitem
>KNode</guimenuitem
> item in it, you should try to open a &konsole; and run &knode; from there. Type</para>

<screen
><prompt
>%</prompt
> <userinput
><command
>knode &amp;</command
></userinput
>
</screen
> 

<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
>KDEDIR</envar
>/bin</filename
> and that its permissions are correctly set.</para>
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>When I start &knode;, a message appears in the task bar but suddenly disappears without &knode; being started.</para
> 
</question
> 
<answer>
<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>
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>I need an important article, but &knode; doesn't have it any more; where can I find this article?</para>
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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
> 
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>How do I open and read several articles at the same time?</para
> 
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<para
>Open the article with <guimenuitem
>Open in own window</guimenuitem
>.</para
> 
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>My articles do not appear in the newsgroup.</para>
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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
> 
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>I want to keep an article; how do I archive it?</para
> 
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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>
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>Some set headers do not appear for several articles in the article window; am I doing something wrong?</para
> 
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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
> 
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<para
>Sometimes I see an article which refers to other articles but &knode; does not show any references; why is that?</para
> 
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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>
</answer
> 
</qandaentry
> 

<qandaentry
> 
<question
> 
<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>
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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>
<para
>If the <token
>%f</token
> is absent, your editor cannot be run.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

<qandaentry
> 
<question>
<para
>Why can I not receive data from my local news server?</para>
</question
> 
<answer
> 
<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>
<tip
> 
<para
>The availability of the local news server can easily be verified with the <command
>telnet</command
> program: open a console and type:</para
> 
 
<screen
><prompt
>%</prompt
> <userinput
><command
>telnet</command
> <parameter
>localhost nntp</parameter
></userinput
>
</screen>

<para
>Followed by that, the news server should respond with:</para>

<screen
><computeroutput>
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.16 running at konqi.org
</computeroutput
>
</screen>

<para
>You can quit the <command
>telnet</command
> session with:</para>

<screen
><prompt
>%</prompt
> <userinput
>quit</userinput
>
</screen>

<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>
</tip>

<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>
</answer>
</qandaentry>

</qandaset
> 


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