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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: problem with 2.11 - sys file broken
Message-ID: <298@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 15:02:43 EST
Article-I.D.: bms-at.298
Posted: Thu Dec  4 15:02:43 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 04:44:55 EST
References: <482@enmasse.UUCP>
Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: 2.11 changes default distribution

In article <482@enmasse.UUCP>, guy@enmasse.UUCP (The Computer Guy) writes:

> Could someone please enlighten me as to why this entry in
> my sys file stopped working when I installed 2.11?

> maps:mod.map:F:/usr/spool/maps/mod.map/Batch

> I get no error message; no "sent to maps" message in my log
> file; nothing.  News just ignores this entry completely.
> This worked just fine before I installed 2.11, so I'm wondering

I had a similar problem, but finally figured it out.  Prior to 2.11,
a missing 'distribution' field did nothing.  In 2.11, a missing distribution
defaults to 'world' and 'world' does not appear in the sys file entry
above.  To work in 2.11 you need:

maps:world,mod.map:F:/usr/spool/maps/mod.map/Batch

Now, while this change may seem stupid at first, there is a logical
reason for it (I think).  The intent it to make all articles have
a distribution.  Before, there was no way to screen articles with
no 'distribution' field.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuart>