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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: The anomolous handling of bad dates in cnews.
Message-ID: <1991May30.150251.28862@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 15:02:51 GMT
References: <1991May28.124010.6660@eua.ericsson.se> <1991May28.232833.22503@world.std.com> <1991May30.141804.21755@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1991May30.141804.21755@cis.ohio-state.edu> george@killer-tomato.cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) writes:
>geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>
>    Rich Salz's mail2news is supposed to be quite good at this.  inews is
>    currently really too slow for this job and isn't really intended for it.
>    
>I am looking at installing mail2news on a system running C News, and I noticed
>that it uses the B News date parsing routines.  Will this cause problems ?

  I just used the cnews getdate().  It caused no problems.  Actually with a
few changes to Makefile, you can just pull getdate from libcnews.a

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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