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From: gil@daffy.gatech.edu (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: rrn on NeXT
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Date: 1 Mar 90 21:01:50 GMT
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In article <4568@accuvax.nwu.edu> cliff@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Cliff Chaput)
writes:
>Has anybody gotten rrn (remote rn that accesses the NNTP server on another
>machine, not real rn) to run on their next?  I have a hacked version, and I
>can read news just fine, but when I attempt to post I occasionally get an
>error which forces rrn to exit: %interp buffer overflow.  If you've gotten
>rrn to work on your NeXT, please let me know.

I think the trick here is to make "rrn" with the compiler option
"-fwritable-strings".  I think this got rid of our "interp buffer overflow"
problems.  If that doesn't work, try "-traditional" instead.

				- Gil Neiger
				gil@gatech.edu