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From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: NNTP with CNEWS with DBZ
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Date: 30 Jul 90 15:28:54 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov's message of 30 Jul 90 06:29:31 GMT

In article <6313@helios.ee.lbl.gov> jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> Does anybody do this?  Is there some trick that we're missing?  Nntpd
> claims that cnews already has whatever article we offer to it.  I thought
> that configuring NNTP to use DBM calls but linking with the DBZ library
> would be enough, but apparently not.

If you define BSD_43, common/conf.h forces a defintion of NDBM, even
if you've explicitly defined DBM earlier in the file.  The following
patch prevents this behavior.  After patching, link with dbz.o (not
-ldbm), and it should correctly reject dups.

	...tad

***************
*** 127,134 ****
  #             define READ_SUPER
  #     endif
  #   endif
! #     ifndef NDBM
! #             define NDBM
  #     endif
  #endif

--- 127,136 ----
  #             define READ_SUPER
  #     endif
  #   endif
! #     ifndef DBM
! #             ifndef NDBM
! #                     define NDBM
! #             endif
  #     endif
  #endif