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From: flee@gondor.cs.psu.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Can 'rrn' check for new news?
Message-ID: <3625@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Date: 21 May 88 01:32:19 GMT
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Reply-To: flee@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Posted: Fri May 20 21:32:19 1988

In article <1357@its63b.ed.ac.uk> simon%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
(Simon Brown) writes:
> Aargh! This seems a pretty crude/bizarre way of doing it.

Okay.  Here is a different set of patches to rrn.  The active file
gets grabbed automagically when you reach the End of Newsgroups prompt.
No "-A" option needed.

A much better but more difficult solution would be to use the information
that the server gives you when you send a "GROUP" command.  Except the
effort isn't really worth it.  I'd just as soon wait for rn version 5.0.
--
Felix Lee	flee@gondor.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!gondor!flee


diff -c -r4.3 rn.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1001373	Fri May 20 21:27:25 1988
--- rn.c	Fri May 20 13:55:49 1988
***************
*** 88,98 ****
--- 88,104 ----
  	bool special = FALSE;		/* temporarily allow newsgroup */
  					/*   with no unread news? */
  	bool retry;			/* cycle back to top of list? */
+ #ifdef SERVER
+ 	bool reretry;			/* get the active file again? */
+ #endif
  	NG_NUM recent_ng = 0;
  	
  	current_ng = 0;
  	do {
  	    retry = FALSE;
+ #ifdef SERVER
+ 	    reretry = FALSE;
+ #endif
  	    if (findlast) {
  		findlast = FALSE;
  		starthere = 0;
***************
*** 143,148 ****
--- 149,162 ----
  			}
  		    }
  #endif
+ #ifdef SERVER
+ 		    if (retry || reretry) {
+ 			(void) fclose(actfp);
+ 			ngdata_init();		/* get the active file again */
+ 			retry = TRUE;
+ 			reretry = FALSE;
+ 		    }
+ #endif
  		    dfltcmd = (retry ? "npq" : "qnp");
  #ifdef VERBOSE
  		    IF(verbose)
***************
*** 177,182 ****
--- 191,199 ----
  			ng++;		/* then skip it */
  			continue;
  		    }
+ #ifdef SERVER
+ 		    reretry = TRUE;	/* there's a non-empty newsgroup. */
+ #endif
  		    dfltcmd = "ynq";
  #ifdef VERBOSE
  		    IF(verbose)