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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Anyone having problems with c*batch?
Message-ID: <411@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 18:05:18 EST
Article-I.D.: gatech.411
Posted: Fri Apr 19 18:05:18 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Apr-85 03:38:17 EST
References: <560@ptsfa.UUCP>
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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Summary: 

In article <560@ptsfa.UUCP> dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (David St.Pierre) writes:
>not always the same ones. I've tried to ignore the problem, but things
>aren't getting any better.
>
>Are any/most sites using compression without problems? I'm attaching one
>of spaf@gatech's most recent articles as a sample:
>
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Well, gee, that looks okay to me.  I mean, that's just what I wrote
and the way I meant it.  I stand behind every incomprehensible word
of it, in fact.


On a more serious note, I feed compressed news to 5 or 6 sites and
have no problems.  Same with reception.  I'd say to check and make sure
that no one has modified compress in any way.  Additionally, make
sure that anyone running it on a Vax didn't compile it with the -O
option...as I remember, that caused flakey results at some sites.
There is also a define you need to set if your machine treats unsigned
characters as signed.  It's in the code near the top -- does
that apply to any of the machine involved?


-- 
Gene "4 months and counting" Spafford
The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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