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From: wescott@Columbia.NCR.COM (Mike Wescott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: news software and uux -z option
Message-ID: <2060@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 18:00:22 GMT
References: <477@texbell.swbt.com>
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In article <477@texbell.swbt.com> nolan@tssi.UUCP (Mike Nolan) writes:
> The documentation for news 2.11 contains a patch to the source for uux
> for a -z option to suppress 'successful' messages when sending news articles.

> The documentation for my Tower/450 (2.01.00) seems to state that the -z option
> enables a 'successful' message for uux.

> Am I imagining this, or these two options the opposite of each other?

You're not imagining this.  HDB defaults to the old -z behaivor and the flag
now meaning opposite to that of the hack for news.

When I brought up HDB with news for the first time, I had to scurry back
to the man pages to figure out why I was suddenly getting all these messages
mailed to me.

	-Mike

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	-Mike Wescott
	 mike.wescott@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM