Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: SMITH%MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Ross Smith: (212) 340-5356) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Bug in V5.9x NEWS processin some NEWS batches Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 90 19:37:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: "Ross Smith: (212) 340-5356" Lines: 182 X-VMS-To: ANU-L X-Organization: NYU Medical Center, 550 1st Ave., New York, NY 10016 X-Envelope-to: anu-news@vm1.nodak.edu Hi everybody, here is another problem for your consideration. On upgrade from V5.7 to V5.8/9 our NNTP feed broke and we were forced to switch to MAIL as the mechanism for getting news from a neighbouring UNIX site (PHRI). The news arrived, one mail message per item. The 'standard' NEWSSKIM.COM file was used to get the news batches with: $MAIL EXTRACT/ALL NEWSMAIL.MAIL and the resulting file was fed to NEWS. I noticed that with V5.9A that while 13 mail messages were extracted, only 5 items were recognized adn ADDed. So I switched back to NEWS V5.8. With V5.8, all items were added, except the first, consistently. I kludged my way round that by creating a dummy 'dead' item file and appending the real news batches to it before handing it over to NEWS. With this fiddle we got NEWS working again. Then I got V5.9C and tried it. On the news batch appended below V5.9C ADDed every other item only (skipped half of them). I think this is a bug. Clearly V5.8 and the V5.9x versions behave differently, adn the differences essentially make V5.9x unusable with a news feed via mail of the type we were getting. I have appended an example below. The messy 'item' at the begining is the fragment pre-pended to the batch to allow V5.8 to read it, however, this does not affect the V5.9C behaviour, as far as I can tell. Note that there are 3 headers, one from VMS mail, one from PMDF and the NEWS header: all the NEWS item stuff has 'N' in column 1. Now where to look is probably clear: I appologize for not trying to fix this myself, but we are a FORTRAN shop here and there is only one overworked girl who knows C. Waiting for her to get round to doing this isn't too realistic. We are running: VMS V5.2, PMDF V3.1, CMU-TCP V6.4 (patched Dec 89). -------------------- Example of News Batch ---------------------------------- <--- NB: FormFeed character replaced with for mailing. From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 26-DEC-1989 12:37:40.73 Received: from phri.phri.nyu.edu by MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU; Tue, 26 Dec 89 12:37 EST NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax! DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL!TMPLee NFrom: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL N !! --- THIS IS A DUMMY NEWS ITEM --- From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:41:10.49 To: CC: Subj: Received: from phri.phri.nyu.edu by MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:41 EST Received: by phri.phri.nyu.edu (5.59++/IDA-1.2.5) id AA09448; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:46:06 EST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:46:06 EST From: News System Message-id: <9001042346.AA09448@phri.phri.nyu.edu> Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu X-Envelope-to: rnews NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!bloom-be acon!SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU!Michael.Jones NFrom: Michael.Jones@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU NNewsgroups: comp.windows.x NSubject: Crayola Color Database NMessage-ID: <631490908.mbj@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU> NDate: 4 Jan 90 22:08:00 GMT NSender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) NOrganization: The Internet NLines: 7 N (Stuff Deleted) N N -- Mike From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:41:31.56 To: CC: Subj: Received: from phri.phri.nyu.edu by MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:41 EST Received: by phri.phri.nyu.edu (5.59++/IDA-1.2.5) id AA09455; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:46:24 EST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:46:24 EST From: News System Message-id: <9001042346.AA09455@phri.phri.nyu.edu> Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu X-Envelope-to: rnews NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!bloom-beacon!mcg ill-vision!quiche!opus!clement NFrom: clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin) NNewsgroups: comp.sys.next NSubject: printing mach docs NSummary: machsys won't print on the next NMessage-ID: <1831@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> NDate: 4 Jan 90 22:27:33 GMT NReply-To: clement@opus.UUCP (Clement Pellerin) NDistribution: usa NOrganization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada NLines: 30 N N N > CMU MACH documentation can be obtained by anonymous ftp. This is the (Stuff Deleted) N-- Nnews From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:50:39.66 To: CC: Subj: Received: from phri.phri.nyu.edu by MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:50 EST Received: by phri.phri.nyu.edu (5.59++/IDA-1.2.5) id AA09662; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:55:32 EST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:55:32 EST From: News System Message-id: <9001042355.AA09662@phri.phri.nyu.edu> Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu X-Envelope-to: rnews NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax! DREW.BITNET!PCOEN NFrom: PCOEN@DREW.BITNET (Paul Coen) NNewsgroups: comp.os.vms NSubject: Restricted, Captive, Mail & TPU NMessage-ID: <9001042338.AA10505@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> NDate: 4 Jan 90 20:06:00 GMT NSender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU NOrganization: The Internet NLines: 20 N N (Stuff Deleted) NPaul Coen Student Operator, Drew University Academic Computer Center N bitnet: pcoen@drew, pcoen@drunivac usenet: rutgers!njin!drew!pcoen N "Plants are green, unless they turn brown, and brown is bad." From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:50:54.66 To: CC: Subj: Received: from phri.phri.nyu.edu by MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:50 EST Received: by phri.phri.nyu.edu (5.59++/IDA-1.2.5) id AA09668; Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:55:46 EST Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:55:46 EST From: News System Message-id: <9001042355.AA09668@phri.phri.nyu.edu> Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu X-Envelope-to: rnews NXref: phri comp.lang.misc:3809 comp.lang.c:24820 NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun! ukc!inmos!roger NFrom: roger@wraxall.inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd) NNewsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c NSubject: occam (was Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X) NKeywords: programming languages, abstractions NMessage-ID: <3470@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> NDate: 4 Jan 90 10:06:32 GMT NReferences: <1470@inmos.co.uk> NSender: news@inmos.co.uk NReply-To: roger@inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd) NOrganization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK. NLines: 22 N NIn article <1470@inmos.co.uk (Bill Smith) writes: (Stuff Deleted) N+44 454 616616 ROW: roger@inmos.com OR roger@inmos.co.uk From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:51:11.49 To: CC: Subj: (And so on for 417 blocks)