Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: C News compatibility issue Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 08:10:26 GMT Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 17 I support a news reader that requires an entry in the sys file as such: artfile:all/all:H:afinsert "%s" Regrettably, C News doesn't implement the H flag, which passes the relevant history line to afinsert. This in itself wouldn't be fatal, because newshist will generate the history line, and I can run it on a wrapper to afinsert. Is there an easy way to get the message id to the wrapper? I wish to avoid snooping around in the article in order to get the message id so that I can call newshist, which would finally give me the article location(s). Better yet, can I have my H flag back? -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]