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From: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: rn xref broken
Message-ID: <808@percival.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 05:15:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: percival.808
Posted: Thu Jul 23 05:15:20 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 10:53:37 EDT
References: <2314@imt3b2.UUCP>
Reply-To: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi)
Organization: Percy's UNIX, Portland, OR.
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Keywords: xref articles

In article <2314@imt3b2.UUCP> imtsft@imt3b2.UUCP (IMT) writes:
>
>Rn does not appear to handle articles posted to multiple groups.
>netnews is compiled to ( and does ) generate the xref lines for
>rn. However rn displays articles that have already been read in
>other news groups.
>
>Any ideas or help?

I had the same problem some time ago, I poked and pried and found that
the sources to rn I had had not been patched correctly.  I don't remember
which file it was in but the patch changed the header line that got searched
for the system name.  It used to be the Relay-Version (or something like
that) in the older news releases (2.10.2 and earlier), but those lines
got killed so another line got used in it's place.  The specific problem
is that the Xref line added by inews has the system name on it but this
does not match the name in the Relay-Version (or whatever) line so rn
assumes the X-ref line is from another system and ignores it.  I beleive
the mis-aplied patch was in the late 20s or early 30s.  As an added tip,
it was the patch that added a check for news 2.10.3 or later in Configure.
Hope this helps, it is hopelessly jumbled but at 0215 what do you expect?
-michael
-- 
If my employer knew my opinions he would probably look for another engineer.

	Michael Galassi, Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR
		tektronix!reed!percival!nerd