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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Some 'rn' problems
Message-ID: <3931@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 14:32:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 14:32:12 1987
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References: <807@drivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Organization: Unisys - System Development Group, Santa Monica
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In article <807@drivax.UUCP> holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) writes:
>1) Reading 1 copy of a cross-posted article.
>   Somebody else on the net had the problem after they converted to the new
>   inews program, and just reConfigured rn and it started working.
>
>   That doesn't do the trick here. What part of the code skips already
>   read articles? How does it know?

Patch #29 fixed this.  You need to have installed this before running
Configure.  If you're lazy, don't rerun Configure, just add #define NORELAY
to config.h.  By the way, the patchlevel of a fully patched rn is 39.

>2) Prompting for new newsgroups.
>
>   This is something that worked before we went to the new mail system. But
>   now, the system occasionally prompts about new newsgroups, but often
>   doesn't.
>
>   This is supposed to work off changes in the active file size, right?

Right.  There are other things that need to be true for a newsgroup to be
counted as new as well, having to do with the last modification date of
either article 1, or of the directory if there are no articles.  What it
does if there is no directory I'm not sure, but I think it would ignore it
until the directory is created.  Maybe this is what you are noticing.

Larry Wall
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