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From: weening@polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: News 2.11.18 problem on Ultrix
Message-ID: <11853@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Sep 89 22:40:04 GMT
Sender: Joe Weening <weening@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: weening@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Organization: Stanford University
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After I installed patch 18 to B news 2.11 on an Ultrix 3.0 system,
rnews no longer succeeded in unbatching articles.  For each batch,
a bunch of the following messages appeared in log and errlog:

Sep 19 13:55	news	inews: : Inbound news is garbled

and no articles were posted.  The culprit seems to be the following
change in ifuncs.c.  Removing it made things work again.

*** 1400,1402
  						freopen(tfilename, "r", infp);
! 					(void) free(cp);
  					return;	/* from checkbatch as if

--- 1453,1456 -----
  						freopen(tfilename, "r", infp);
! 					setbuf(infp, (char *) NULL);
! 					(void) free(cp); 
  					return;	/* from checkbatch as if