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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
Message-ID: <2015@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 88 20:53:24 GMT
References: <223494f9:190e@snark.UUCP> <4299@b-tech.UUCP> <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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In article <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>In article <2004@epimass.EPI.COM>, jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>>The answer, of course, is to put back in the DOXREFS patch as a
>>configurable option.

>O.K., I'll do it, under protest. I still maintain that the Xref header is
>wrong, because ID cross-referencing ought to be done through the history
>file, but there is obviously too much demand for this feature for me to
>resist it.

What there is demand for is that rn not be broken.  Another option is
to provide a patch to rn to do cross-referencing through the history
file.  (Hey, there's a fourth option!). Either way will do.

If you do decide to add support for the Xref: header, the changes
are in inews.c and header.c in 2.11 news.  You only get the code
if you define DOXREFS, so it's easy to find the relevant spots in
the code.
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