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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How to prevent links.
Message-ID: <3324@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 13:59:12 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP> jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:

| Problem is that relaynews was returning 'bad' after most batches.
| The problem turned out to be with newsgroups crossposted to comp
| and some other hierarchy. relaynews would try to create a symbolic
| link instead of a duplicate copy of the article and would run into
| problems as XENIX doesn't allow cross-filesystem symbolic links. 

  Your confusion isn't limited to news... Xenix doesn't allow symbolic
links at all. That's part of your problem.

  There's a low pain solution for B news, but with C news you're on your
own. Perhaps one of the C news people will offer a suggestion, but I
think they all run BSD.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
         but halt and no-op are in hardware for efficiency"