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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: inews on a Sys VR2 system (a problem)
Message-ID: <1494@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 18:48:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  6 18:48:43 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Feb-87 02:06:53 EST
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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I just recently helped another site get news going.  Actually, he did
all the work, I just pointed out a few things.  Anyway, the inews.c
UNLINK(ACTIVE, bfr); bug line got him (I am 4.3BSD).  That is now
solved.  But a question that I had is why something like this happens:

	inews -C news.lists moderated < /dev/nul

causes this:

	inews -n n.ctl -c newgroup n m -d local -a "person@site.UUCP"

After the UNLINK bug was fixed, the above seems to work, but I wonder why.
On my 4.3BSD system, the same input would create the following:

	inews -n news.lists.ctl -c newgroup news.lists moderated -d .....

The person is running what is known as GRC Python/32.  It is a SysVR2
for the National Semiconductor 32000 processor.

Any ideas as to what is going on would be appreciated.

Mike Brown
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