Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com!del From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: A couple of trn questions Message-ID: <1990Aug9.052626.2231@mlb.semi.harris.com> Date: 9 Aug 90 05:26:26 GMT References: <1990Aug8.083736.22740@mlb.semi.harris.com> Sender: news@mlb.semi.harris.com Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL Lines: 23 In article davison%drivax@uunet.uu.net (Wayne Davison) writes: >Don Lewis (del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com) wrote: >> 1) The soft pointer file seems to be incompatible between rrn pl 47 and >> trn. When you switch between them they have to rebuild the soft pointers. > >The problem here is that the active and active2 files are not identical >in many instances (the active2 file keeps the newsgroup counts that mthreads >has processed). The differences are inconsequential to operation, but they >do make a difference in the .rnsoft pointers. > >The obvious solution is to stop using rrn :-). Another solution would be >to make the active2 file a more exact "copy" of the active file (which is >something that I am likely to do in a future patch). Some other solutions >include using a .trnsoft file instead of sharing the .rnsoft file, or totally >revamping the new-newsgroup-finding code. Problem solved. I changed mthreads so that it writes C News compatible ten digit article numbers in the active2 file. Now trn and rrn happily coexist. -- Don "Truck" Lewis Harris Semiconductor Internet: del@mlb.semi.harris.com PO Box 883 MS 62A-028 Phone: (407) 729-5205 Melbourne, FL 32901