Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What happens with the nntp.a$$ files?
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.154501.878@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jul19.215007.27992@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 90 15:45:01 GMT

In article <1990Jul19.215007.27992@caen.engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes:
>Occasionally I get "nntp.a<process id>" files hanging around in my
>/usr/spool/news/in.coming directory.  What entity in the C-news
>entourage is responsable for processing these files, or is it NNTPs
>responsability? ...

Sounds like those are NNTP temporaries; C News neither creates nor deals
with files with names like that.  (The only files in that directory that
are meaningful to C News are the ones whose names start with a digit.)
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