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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: Bug in V5.9A
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Date: 24 Nov 89 18:07:56 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>A bug shows up if you do the following:
>
>1) point to a newsgroup name on the directory screen, but don't go into
>   the newsgroup directory
>2) SHOW CONFERENCE
>3) SET NEWSGROUP/ITEMHOLD=somenumber
>
>You'll get an addressing exception with virtual address=90
>
>The fix is to add the following line to the routine newsgroup_header (in
>newsutility.c) right after the first executable line:
>
>if (!gap->grp_ia) map_items (curr_g);
>
>--
>Lenny Glassmann                glassmann@ccavax.camb.com
     
Thanks Lenny,
     
The fix will be included in the 5.9B patches due out as soon as I can get a few
spare hours!
     
Geoff Huston