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From: news.misc@dr.uucp
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: checknews bug?
Message-ID: <534@dr.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 89 16:54:57 GMT
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I am using checknews 2.31 and have discovered a possible bug,
or at least a somewhat annoying situation causing checknews to
reply "no news" when I actaully have received news??

My .newsrc-file is buildt by readnews after I have inserted
'option' and control/junk.
readnews will create a news-group line for each news-group
in your active-file - even those without any news. Those
without any news will have following format:

	comp.bugs.misc: 

When this line is interpreted by checknews, checknews will
bypass it even though corresponding line in your active-file
says there are news in this group!

In line 271 and 272 in my original checknews, I found:

	if (*ptr == ':')
		continue;

E.g. the search loop continues if the line ends with ':'!!
Note, it really makes no difference if the line has trailing
blanks or tabs, as they have already been removed by checknews!

To solve the problem I replaced line 271,272 with:

	if (*ptr == ':') {
		strcpy(rcbuf, " 0");
		ptr = rcbuf + 1;
	}

And it works perfectly....

	Tom Rojahn
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