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From: billc@wupulm.UUCP (Bill Canning)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn news-reader questions
Summary: Why does my rn not use Xref correctly?
Keywords: rn, news, Xref
Message-ID: <119@wupulm.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 89 21:16:49 GMT
References: <5950@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Reply-To: billc@wupulm.UUCP (Bill Canning)
Followup-To: news.software.b
Distribution: usa
Organization: Washington Univ. Pulmonary, St. Louis
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This isn't really a follow-up, rather it is along the same lines:

I have install news2.11 and rn4.3 on an HP 360 running HP-UX 6.2.
The patchlevel for news was ca. 34, and for rn it was 14.  If I understand
correctly, rn should check the Xref: line in the header and be able to
determine if each article has been read in a different newsgroup, and if
so, skip it.

You may have guessed that this does not happen on my system.  I have done
verbose header displays, and the Xref: line is there, and is correct, but
rn is ignoring it.

I assume that the fault is in rn, so let me add that I configured rn
with the ``Configure'' shell script provided with the package, and made no
other changes to the Makefile or the header files.

Any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.  Please send e-mail
to wupost.wustl.EDU!wupulm!billc, as I am not sure the wugate router knows
about wupulm.

Thanks,
Bill Canning (billc%wupulm@wupost.wustl.EDU)