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From: alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dave Alden)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Odd log file entry...
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Date: 21 Aug 90 21:17:54 GMT
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In article <1990Aug21.201547.6999@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>As far as I know, "f" is a Dave-Alden-ism for nntplink, but I don't
>know what it indicates.  Dave forgot to document his new log codes and
>forgot to mark his changes, but he assures me that future nntplink
>releases will remedy these problems (unless we obsolete nntplink
>first, hee hee).

Yes - I'm guilty.  Sorry about that - I was hoping to release a new version of
nntplink (which would include the correct documentation about my changes
to relaynews) soon enough that I wouldn't have to release just a new relaynews
patch.  I guess I'd better go ahead and release a patch only for relaynews.
I'll send mail to the "linkers" mailing list once I've got that patch online.
If you aren't on the Linkers mailing list yet would like to get the new patch
just drop me a note and I'll make sure to tell you when (and where) it's
available.

What the flag means is that a cancel control message came across but there
wasn't an article to cancel (f == failed).

...dave