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# Chapter 4. Questions and Answers

4.1. I have installed KDE2, but KNode does not exist in the K Menu.
4.2. When I start KNode, a message appears in the task bar but suddenly disappears without KNode being started.
4.3. I need an important article, but KNode doesn't have it any more. Where do I find this article?
4.4. How do I open and read several articles at the same time?
4.5. My articles don't appear in the news group.
4.6. I want to keep some article. How do I archive it?
4.7. Some set headers don't appear for several articles in the article window. Am I doing something wrong?
4.8. Sometimes I see an article which refers to other articles but KNode does not show any references Why's that?
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.

4.1. I have installed KDE2, but KNode does not exist in the K Menu.

Does the Entry Internet exist? If not, maybe you didn't install the kdenetwork package because your distribution possibly doesn't do this for you. If the entry is there, but you don't have an item KNode 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 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 those don't look obvious to you, mark them with your mouse and copy it to the clipboard. Turn to a KDE mailing list or use another news reader to ask for help in a KDE news group.

4.3. I need an important article, but KNode doesn't have it any more. Where do I find this article?

You can find some extensive usenet archives at www.deja.com/usenet/ or AltaVista. They even contain several years old articles.

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 don't appear in the news group.

When you publish an article it may last some time until your news server has it. Wait several hours before you send the Article again.

4.6. I want to keep some article. How do I archive it?

Choose the article in the article view. File->Save opens a file dialog. You can save the article to a file now.

4.7. Some set headers don't 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 doesn't show those header lines.

4.8. Sometimes I see an article which refers to other articles but KNode does not show any references Why's that?

This happens when somebody posted an article in another news group and checked the option Followup To. This article is 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 e.g. want to use kedit enter

`kedit %f`

If the %f is absent, your editor can not be run.

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