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From: dennisf@mcwlab.mcw.mu.edu (Dennis Flaherty)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.2bsd
Subject: /usr/src/new/news/src/Makefile.dst MAXPERBATCH
Keywords: integer arithmetic overflow
Message-ID: <170@mcwlab.mcw.mu.edu>
Date: 13 May 89 18:15:53 GMT
Reply-To: dennisf@mcwlab.mcw.mu.edu (Dennis Flaherty)
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Organization: Neuroscience Research Lab, M.C.W., Milw., WI
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In the file /usr/src/new/news/src/Makefile.dst, MAXPERBATCH
is defined to be 1000000000.

That's a 47-bit number!

So that the MAXBATCH comparisons in /usr/lib/news/sendbatch
work, reduce it to only a million or so and recompile.  Or
just change MAXBATCH in /usr/lib/news/sendbatch.

Has anyone brought up a more modern version of news, 
like 2.11?

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