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From: storm@login.dkuug.dk (Kim F. Storm)
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Subject: Re: Fix for SCO posting with nnpost to cnews
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Date: 4 Jun 90 19:16:42 GMT
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kreed@telesys.cts.com (Kevin W. Reed) writes:

>The following is how I fixed my posting problems using nn 6.4.3 and Cnews.

>It seems that for some reason, when inews is called from nn it is no longer
>attached to a terminal (?) and since this is so, who am i fails.  When called
>from postnews it works ok.

The easy solution for this is to make fd 3 be a tty, since the anne.jones
script checks that.  But it has yet to be tested...

This can be accomplished using
	dup2(2,3)
early in nn's main program (in nn.c).  However, I will probably use
	close(3); dup(2);
since dup2 isn't portable - or is it?

++Kim