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In article <1991Jun13.043555.20773@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Probably nntpd and dbz are in disagreement on the case mapping.  This sort
>of problem is why dbz provides interfaces (dbzfetch and dbzstore) which do
>*all* the case mapping internally, so the client never has to worry about
>how to do it.  Nntpd with CNEWS defined really ought to be using those,
>not the old dbm interface.

This will be done in NNTP 1.6 and conditionalized on the use of dbz, not
CNEWS unless the same interface is use regarless of the dbm approach used
by the installer of the cnews at the site.

Please let me know if dbzfetch/dbzstore (NNTP only need dbzfetch) is 
specific to dbz or just a badly-named front-end to whichever dbm the
installer uses.