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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: trn bugs
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.052017.2137@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 05:20:17 GMT
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Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL
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The first one isn't mine and I haven't been able to reproduce it, but ...

 Looks like if you do a '[' at the top -- you get assertion failed -- and
 it dumps.


The other problem manifests itself with cross posted articles.  Since
mthreads processes one newsgroup at a time, if trn happens to stumble
across an crossposted article that has only been processed in one
newsgroup, it barfs on the Xref line because it has an article number
greater than the maximum article number in the active2 file entry for
the other newsgroup.  This also gives you the pleasure of reading
the article twice.  The barf message looks like:
  Corrupt Xref line!!!  4498 --> comp.sys.sun(1..4461)
I'm tempted to hack the thread building stuff from mthreads into
C New's relaynews.  It looks like most of the information it needs
is already hanging around.
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Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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