# Questions and Answers

I have installed &kde; 3, 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 itemKNode 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.

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.

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 groups.google.com or AltaVista. They even contain several years of old articles.

How do I open and read several articles at the same time?

Open the article with Open in own window.

My articles don't appear in the newsgroup.

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.

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. Another possibility is to copy the article in a folder.

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.

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. 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.

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 for example want to use &kedit; enter ``kedit` %f`

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

Why can't I receive data from my local newsserver?

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.

The availability of the local news server can easily be verified with the program `telnet`. 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 quit the `telnet` session with:

    % quit

If that should 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.

Further, you need of course a (dial-in) connection to a news server on the Internet. From there, &knode; or the local news server retrieves the articles. Your Internet provider should be able to give you information about which news servers you can use. You need this information in any case.