Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!cudep From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Problems installing c-news with nntp Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 15:52:07 GMT References: <21549@brahms.udel.edu> <1991May26.004716.2751@eua.ericsson.se> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Organization: Team Limpid's Pink Boy For Bob Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: thistle In article <1991May26.004716.2751@eua.ericsson.se> per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) writes: >Unless I'm missing something, this setup will throw away the entire >"batch" if the remote site can't be contacted (or its spool is full). >Not very nice, IMHO. Nntpsend a o do indeed make more sense - and if you >use nntpsend, be sure to use the C news version (by Jean-Francois Lamy) >that does C style locking, unlike the B'ish one in the nntp distribution. It won't discard the batch. This relies on nntpxmit unlinking the file upon successful transmission. If it didn't work, the file's still there. I did my own hacking to nntpsend, where do I get Jean-Francois Lamy's version? Cheers, -- \/ato /'\ /`\ Ian Dickinson TED KALDIS FOR PRESIDENT! /^^^\/^^^\ vato@warwick.ac.uk /TWIN/TEATS\ @c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson / \