Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!mcr
From: mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Richardson)
Subject: More about C News and barfing.
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.023059.3082@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Summary: Maybe SCO specific?
Organization: Sandelman Software Works, Debugging Department, Ottawa, ON
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 02:30:59 GMT

  Recently I read something here to the effect that a (new) C news
site was producing a large number of barfs on a adjacent B news site?
  Henry responded to the effect that this can't be as C news as bashed
quite extensively against B news.

  Well, one of my downfeeds seems to have the same problem -- to
quote:

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	id AA02490; Wed, 6 Feb 91 19:44:26 EST
From: revcan!dave (David Blackwood)
X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2)
To: latour!mcr
Subject: Bad news batches
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 91 17:37:29 EST
Message-Id:  <9102061737.aa05706@revcan.UUCP>
Status: OR

We seem to be getting a significant number of bad news batches which cannot be
uncompressed.  This is causing us a major problem as the SCO news software
hangs on a bad batch but continues to write the last log entry over and over
until the file system fills completely at which time the system is effectively
dead.  Any ideas, suggestions?

Dave

----

  Does this ring ANY bells at all? I'm afraid that the previous
discussion has expired off my system already. (I'm quite behind in my
news.all reading)
 
  My batchparms says:

revcan		100000  20 	batcher compcun viauux

  compcun is:
#! /bin/sh
# Invoke compress, adding silly 2.11-compatible header.
# 12-bit compression is the lowest common denominator among news sites,
# and is often almost as good as the much-more-costly 16-bit compression.

echo "#! cunbatch"
compress -b 12
status=$?
case "$status"
in
	2)
	status=0		# compress stupidity
	;;
esac
exit $status

  (So this isn't the B news problem with compressing the whole file.)
  
  My C News is at:
  25-May-1990

  I'm in the process of applying patches. (Which never works right for
me... alas). Oh -- I run SunOS 4.1

  
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