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From: vanpelt@unisv.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: System V and news expire
Message-ID: <8806091604.AA27959@unisv.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 23:04:28 GMT
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Has anyone else seen a problem with compiling netnews under System V on a
Tahoe machine?  News seems to run pretty much OK, except expire has
serious problems:  The 'oldest message' is set equal to 'newest message'
in most news groups, but the actual article files in /usr/spool/news
are seldom if ever actually deleted.  I've been reduced to never running
expire, and running a brute-force "find older & rm" script instead.  

The make (patch level 14) gets the following diagnostics.

"control.c", line 895: warning: illegal pointer combination
"control.c", line 896: warning: illegal pointer combination
"control.c", line 897: warning: illegal pointer combination
"funcs.c", line 160: warning: illegal pointer combination
"funcs.c", line 161: warning: illegal pointer combination
"recnews.c", line 425: warning: illegal pointer combination
"recnews.c", line 426: warning: illegal pointer combination
"recnews.c", line 427: warning: illegal pointer combination
"compress.c", line 316: warning: illegal pointer combination
"compress.c", line 316: warning: illegal pointer combination
"rfuncs.c", line 835: warning: illegal pointer combination
"readr.c", line 183: warning: illegal pointer combination
"readr.c", line 185: warning: illegal pointer combination
"visual.c", line 1794: warning: illegal pointer combination