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From: conslt32%ZEUS.UNL.EDU@VM1.NoDak.EDU (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Problems with ADD FILE under 5.8A
Message-ID: <4907@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 89 23:54:00 GMT
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I had this problem as well, a couple of weeks ago.  I fixed it and forgot
to post it to the net, I'm sorry....  :-)

    I spent an hour debugging, and found out that the problem has SOMETHING
to do with the headers..  I really can't remember now and wish I had written
it up, but the fix is easy...

    In file NEWSADD.C, routine add_file, there is a call to get_line that
skips over some data, and there needs to be two calls.  Here's the section:

/*
 *  add_file
 *
 *  Read in file "fnam" into the news system.
 */

static
add_file(fnam)
  char *fnam;
{
  int retval = 0;

  if (!strlen(fnam))
    return(printf("\tError: Add - No filename specified\n"),0);
  if (!(fpr = fopen(fnam,"r")))
    return(printf("\tError: Add - Cannot read %s\n",fnam),0);

  printf("\nAdd - Reading file: %s\n\n",fnam);
  *add_inline = *fline = '\0';
  infile_eof = next_eof = n_stripping = 0;

  first_msg = 1;                                           |--------------|
  get_line(); get_line();                           <----  |Add second    |
  while (!infile_eof) {                                    |get_line here |
    infile_eom = 0;                                        |--------------|
    init_context();
    if (!strncmp(add_inline,"N#! rnews ",10)) n_stripping = 1;

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