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From: C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: short overflow in Dnews and Arn
Message-ID: <901220.223410.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 90 04:34:10 GMT
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I have discovered, with a certain amount of dispointment, that Dnews and
Arn use 16 bit signed integers to store the message number.  Why is this a
problem?  Well, I copy my news articles straight from a unix machine without
renumbering and sometime durring my 3 week hiatus from news reading
comp.sys.amiga past the magic 32767 point and kept going.  Arn and Dnews
complain bitterly about negative message numbers.

I don't have source for Arn so I figured I'd recompile or patch Dnews.
Then I saw the line "...Dnews has only a make file for DICE"
Neither compiling without a make file or installing a new C compiler fills my
heart with joy.

So, does anyone out there have a copy of Dnews or Arn patched or recompiled to
used 32 bit ints?  If you do I would greatly apreciate a copy.

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