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From: usenet@jclyde.UUCP (Usenet control)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Another rash of empty files with long names...
Message-ID: <605@jclyde.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 09:12:05 GMT
References: <483@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: usenet@jclyde.UUCP (Usenet control)
Organization: Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye, Austin, TX
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Summary: SPOOLNEWS looks to be defined

In article <483@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>Well, it happened again, and I'm getting rather curious.  The .rnews
>directory here got very large, and was filled with a horde of empty
>files.  For assorted reasons, I'd doctored the news source so that
>
>Command: "/usr/bin/rnews -S -p 5153"
>Status=0.
>Command: "/usr/bin/rnews -S -p 88031812151497"

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>Anyone know what might be going on?

Looks to me like you have SPOOLNEWS defined in the defs.h of your news
source.  This directs rnews to spool all incoming to news to .rnews to be
unspooled at a later date by rnews -U (which doesn't want to work here,
I am at patchlevel 12 running under SCO Xenix Release 2.1.3 with the 2.1.3
development system upgraded I guess to 2.1.3UG, it allowed me to compile
news :-)).

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