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From: mp@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: bnproc loses news items
Message-ID: <752@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 02:07:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.752
Posted: Mon Sep 19 02:07:41 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Sep-83 09:11:04 EDT
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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I'm uncertain as to the etymology of the bnproc.c we run here, but
its problem may be shared by other news-batching implementations.

I just noticed (by running uuxqt manually) that bnproc will print
an error message AND EXIT if the pclose of the rnews process
is nonzero.  Unfortunately, rnews returns nonzero status for
every little error, e.g. if your machine doesn't subscribe
to the group mentioned in the article header.  After bnproc
runs an rnews that returns nonzero, it exits and throws away
all the remaining news in that batch.  I fixed it by commenting
out the appropriate exit() line in bnproc.c.
	Mark