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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: xref lines not working in rn
Keywords: xref rn news inews
Message-ID: <3413@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 18:53:39 GMT
References: <244@wupulm.wustl.EDU> <2502@sigma.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2502@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
>>I have rn 4.3 (patch level 14) and news 2.11 (patch level 34(?))
>>running on an HP 9000/360 HP-UX 6.2.  Unfortunately, the Xrefs
>>line is not keeping me from seeing the same message a number of 
>>times.

I assume you mean the reverse, 2.11 (patch level 14) and news 2.11,
patch level 34.  I've saved all the rn patches; rn must be patched
to at least level 29 for DOXREFS to work with 2.11.  See the notes
below too.

In article <244@wupulm.wustl.EDU> billc@wupulm.wustl.EDU (Bill Canning) writes:
>We, too, have this problem with rn 4.3 (patchlevel 39 or 40) and 
>news 2.11.14 (.17?) on a vax-750 running 4.2bsd.
>  
>It appeared about the same time that we installed 2.11; we'd not had
>the problem with 2.10.2. (Rn has not changed since long before we
>installed news 2.11.)

Rerun rn's Configure script.  In answer to the question,

Are you running 2.10.3 or above?

Answer "yes".  rn used to do Xref: processing by means of an algorithm
that uses the Relay-Version header, which was in 2.10.2 but no longer
exists.  This will fix your problem.
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