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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: dbz caveat
Keywords: dbz runtime
Message-ID: <6512@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Oct 89 00:53:45 GMT
References: <1139@svx.SV.DG.COM> <1989Sep26.223014.13868@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <9668@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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>>Dbz also appears to have a nasty habit of not noticing if you have a
>>duplicate under some conditions.  That is, articles which are still in the
>>history file at times show up again if they are received twice!

Beware that under Sys V/386, the C optimizer breaks dbz, at least under 3.0.
The misbehavior is dbz saying articles are not duplicate that actually are,
and the history file is made to be sick-looking.
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