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From: gardner@athsys.uucp (Gardner Cohen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rn and multiple reads of cross posted articles
Summary: where's relay-version
Keywords: xref relay-version
Message-ID: <144@proteus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 88 00:08:56 GMT
Reply-To: gardner@athsys.UUCP (Gardner Cohen)
Distribution: na
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Hi.  I have the following version of rn:
@(#)$Header: rn.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:05:13 lwall Exp $
and 2.11 news patched to level 14.

I get xref lines in my articles, but rn still shows me duplicate
articles.  I recompiled with DOXREFS defined, and enabled debugging,
and found that inews_site in bits.c was not getting set; it expected
to find a system name in a Relay-version line.  It only accepts xref
lines with matching system names.

My short term solution was to hack my machine name into inews_site.
None of my articles or my news feed's articles have Relay-version
lines.

What is the real solution?  Do I need even later patches to rn?

I've seen this problem mentioned in the past in this newsgroup, but
saw no responses.  I'm happy with the current solution, and hope this
helps others.

Gardner Cohen   sun!athsys!gardner