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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: Argh! Posting problems!
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Date: 26 Oct 89 01:27:57 GMT
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It seems to be an evening of locating and addressing old ANU NEWS mail!!
     
Date:         Tue, 11 Jul 89 11:23:22 edt
From: Reg Quinton <reggers%UWOVAX.UWO.CA%VM1.NoDak.EDU@murtoa.cs.mu.oz>
Subject:      RE: Argh! Posting problems!
     
>I've worked around   this problem (fopen(file,"a")  fails  because file  is
>busy) in similar circumstances by either/both of these strategies:
>
>        a) if busy then sleep a bit and try again.
>        b) if busy then fopen(file,"w") and let file versions stack up.
>
>the real rub is determining why the open failed... but assuming any failure
>is a busy failure is adequate if you've set things up reasonably.
     
I have taken this approach and modified NEWSDIST.C accordingly. Again these
patches will be in the V5.9B release
     
Geoff