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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Known problems with the 1.5.10 release
Message-ID: <SPIKE.90Sep12190837@world.std.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 23:08:37 GMT
References: <4094@lib.tmc.edu>
Sender: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In-Reply-To: nntp@tmc.edu's message of 10 Sep 90 03:43:02 GMT


In article <4094@lib.tmc.edu> nntp@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:

>1. Defining SETPROCTITLE when running CNEWS is still problematical.
<The workaround is to NOT define SETPROCTITLE. This will be fixed in 1.6.
>I had a number of CNEWS test sites. One of those sites reported the problem
<about a week AFTER the release. Sigh.

	How does the problem manifest itself?  I am of course going to
turn SETPROCTITLE off, but I (and perhaps others) would like to know
what to look for...

	One thing I have seen is nntpd leaving behind unfinished batch
files when the connection to the remote is lost.  The code seems to
suggest nntpd is suppose to clean these up...

->Spike (Spike@World.STD.com)
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