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From: molenda@cs.umn.edu (Jason "Hax R Us" Molenda)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: rn patches (for Cnews)
Keywords: ugh
Message-ID: <1990Feb24.234114.10326@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 90 23:41:14 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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I have a problem.  I just found out that you need patches to get rn to work
with Cnews' cross-posting headers (I knew there was a problem for ages, but
just now stumbled across the piece of documentation that told me this).  It
mentioned some patches to rn which I can't seem to find.  

I checked the patches in contrib/rn.mod in the Cnews distribution and
found two problems:  they were incomplete (e.g. would not work without
some hand-tweaking on the standard distribution of rn) which they said
right in the docs they probably were and two, they don't have the fix
to make cross-posting work.

An added complication was that all the patches in contrib/rn.mod were for
rn patchlevel #40 and I'm running patchlevel 44 here.

Does anyone have 
  a)  the patches to get rn to work with Cnews cross-posting correctly
  b)  the current patches to get all the nifty features in contrib/rn.mod
      to work with rn patchlevel #44 (one of the neat things they implemented
      was using /usr/lib/news/active.times).

If anyone could mail me a note about where I could find these patches available
for ftp or uucp or whatever, or can send them to me, I'd really appreciate
it.

thanks!

Jason Molenda, University of Minnesota, Computer Science department
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