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From: kent@happym.wa.com (Kent Forschmiedt)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: B News buffer sizes (Was: rn is being...)
Message-ID: <741@happym.wa.com>
Date: 20 Mar 89 09:27:34 GMT
References: <636@icus.islp.ny.us> <227@shadooby.cc.umich.edu> <12191@sharkey.cc.umich.edu>
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In article <12191@sharkey.cc.umich.edu> emv@sharkey.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>Bill, check the size of various interp buffers.  I don't think
>that Larry Wall ever envisioned that rn would have to cope with
>names like 'starbarlounge.cc.umich.edu'.  (rn iot'd on my apollo
>using that name, but worked on 'delrio.cc.umich.edu' -- go figure.)

I solved some mysterious rnews crashes by increasing the short buffer
size in inews/rnews and the other B News stuff:

From news/src/localize.sh:

ed - defs.h <<'EOF'
	.
	.
/define SBUFLEN/s;32;128;p
	.
	.
w
q
EOF
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