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From: dhb@rayssd.RAY.COM (David H. Brierley)
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Subject: Promised changes to "bitmap too large" problem
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Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 11:00:43 EST
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Thanks to all who replied that they would like whatever patches I come
up with for the bitmap overflow problem.  It turns out that converting
to version 2.11 will solve 99 percent of your problems since 2.11
dynamically calculates the size of the bitmap at startup.  The one case
that it fails on is if news is being actively received at the time that
you run readnews/vnews.  The fix for this is to simply increase the
size of the bitmap instead of printing that foolish message.  I have
sent the changes to Rick Adams for inclusion in the next update but if
anyone is desperate to get them send me mail and I will send you a
copy.