Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: unbatcher out of sync?
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.225132.17555@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan11.001342.6553@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 22:51:32 GMT

In article <1991Jan11.001342.6553@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca> mcormier@micor.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michel B. Cormier) writes:
>... answer to why to we get a 'unbatcher out of sync' error 
>message on CNEWS.  However, I forgot the answer and one of the site I am 
>feeding is getting this error now!  Can someone remind me ...

It means "something's wrong with your batch":  relaynews did not find a
"#! rnews nnnnn" line where one should have been.  Typically this means
garbling during preparation or transmission.  One notorious trouble spot
is that the batch format cannot tolerate transformations of newlines to
CR-LF pairs; the byte counts in the "#! rnews" lines must be spot-on.
-- 
If the Space Shuttle was the answer,   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
what was the question?                 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry