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From: chen@spanky.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
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Subject: Re: Need help with rn/bnews on Apollos
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Date: 16 Aug 89 23:28:36 GMT
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In article <203@digi.UUCP> kcantrel@digi.UUCP (Keith Cantrell) writes:
>I have run into a problem with running rn when rnews or rn is already running
>on a different machine.  The problem is the first one will open the file
>"/usr/lib/news/active" for reading and therefore the Apollo operating system
>will lock it.  After this has happens, I am unable to get a second rn or rnews
>to run on a different machine, the fopen complains "Text file busy".  This
>problem does not exist if both programs are running on the same machine.
>
>This was a major problem when I started up rn on my machine and rnews was
>started up on a different machine and started loosing news since it could not
>open the active file :-(
>


The version of rn in ADUS 1989 library already fixed this. It makes a private
copy of active upon invoking. The drawback is that you will need to re-enter
rn to see new articles being posted during your previous session of rn, this is
really not a problem at all.


Jinfu Chen                  (602)898-5338      |       Disclaimer:
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