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From: chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C news unbatcher out of sync?
Message-ID: <CHET.90Jul25161112@uranus.Advansoft.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 90 23:11:12 GMT
Distribution: news
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA
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I periodically get messages from c news that it tossed an article (
saving the whole batch it was in )

Looking at the batch, I see the article tossed always follows a
strange-looking article:

  #! rnews 2048
	[ followed by 2048 bytes of nulls and other 8-bit characters,
interspersed with what looks like hostnames, batch file names, lock
file names, etc., etc. ]

	followed by:
	
	#! rnews nnn

	and the nnn-byte article which gets tossed.

The tossing occurs, I presume, because the 2048th byte of the weird
article is not separate by a newline from the #! signalling the start
of the tossed article.

What are these weird articles and why do they confuse relaynews?

thanks..

Chet.

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