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From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: Rn support in 3.0 (was: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion)
Message-ID: <2572@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 16:58:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.2572
Posted: Mon Mar 28 11:58:18 1988
References: <507@fig.bbn.com> <224167cd:252b@snark.UUCP> <2015@epimass.EPI.COM> <3203@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <3203@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	Why do you need either Xrefs or the history file to eliminate
>seeing cross posted articles twice?  Why not just keep track of the inode
>number of every article file you open?

Aside from all the other VALID reasons for not doing it this way, it is also
hopelessly non-portable!

By the way, has anyone got a version of news software running on VAX/VMS? We
have a strong need for one.
-- 
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