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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Checkgroups messages not working (fix?)
Message-ID: <2224@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 14:57:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 14:57:14 1985
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References: <188@ittral.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Keywords: rn, inews
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In article <188@ittral.UUCP> malloy@ittral.UUCP (William P. Malloy) writes:
>I have attempted several times to run the checkgroups script...
>...It tells me that ALL the newsgroups are invalid....
>..if you are running Larry Walls rn news reading program, and have
>installed the patches for the Xref: patch, you'll find nothing is written
>into ARTICLE until AFTER the call on control() occurs inside inews.c.
>
>The real question is how come no one else ever noticed this before?  I
>suspect no one else runs the checkgroups messages, or just have never
>installed the Xref: patches (which is too bad because it works rather
>well).  Or it's already been fixed, and I just don't know about it (highly
>likely).

As it happens, your last surmise is correct.  It was noted and fixed back
when rn version 4.1 was current.  Must be about a year ago.  A patch
was sent out at the time.  The Xref patch that came with rn version 4.3
waits until after the article is written before calling control().

Larry Wall
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