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From: root@ddcsu.ddiae.oz (Administrator)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews questions
Summary: Problems unbatching news due to long lines
Message-ID: <217@ddcsu.ddiae.oz>
Date: 4 Oct 89 14:03:14 GMT
References: <643@wash08.UUCP>
Organization: Darling Downs Institute, Toowoomba.
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In article <643@wash08.UUCP>, rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes:

> It seems that the unbatching of articles is taking forever!
> ...  it sure doesn't seem to be making any progress!
> 
> Does anyone out there have any suggestions?

Bob,
	I had a similar problem with the installation and it seemed to
be caused by lines in some news articles being longer than 256
characters. I wrote a filter to cut such lines in two (or more)
and have had no further problems. Hope it works for you.

				Barry Mahoney.