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From: alan@sersun2.essex.ac.uk (Alan M Stanier)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Rrn claiming newsgroups to be bogus when they aren't
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Date: 6 Dec 89 12:21:43 GMT
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We run bnews 2.11, and rrn. A problem has recently hit us: whenever a new
newsgroup is created, rrn asks if I want it added to my .newsrc, then when
I say yes, claims it's bogus. This happens with any new newsgroup, anything
after line 950 in the active file (which should not be a problem, as we have
MAXRCLINES and LINES set to 2048).

Looking at the code, I find that the problem is in ngdata.c: the call to
findact in getngsize is returning 0 rather than the highest article number
in the directory. I can't get any further into the problem than that. Has
anyone else seen this sort of behaviour? If so, what have I done wrong?

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