Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: using 'readnews' on Cnews system
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.215647.23271@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb16.172953.13982@unixland.uucp>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 1991 21:56:47 GMT

In article <1991Feb16.172953.13982@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>When I run the 'readnews' program that got built when I installed
>Cnews, it dies with a "Segmentation Violation - core dumped."
>
>Does something have to be done to make that work?

Not that is known.  *However*, there is a known bug in readnews that causes
core dumps when an article with no Date: header shows up.  (To be precise,
this one is my fault; the original author is not to blame.)  The next patch
will fix this, and quite soon relaynews will discard such articles anyway --
they are illegal.
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