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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: RN pl44 bugs!
Keywords: NNTP
Message-ID: <25EC8B55.8934@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 90 02:39:17 GMT
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dmose@hazy.math.uoregon.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:

>Bug #1:
>	With each invocation an rrnact.* file is created in /tmp.  This
>	file is _never_ deleted.  Noticed this one day when I saw about
>	400K of such files up to a month old sitting in /tmp.

Having gone through this myself, I'll answer this one...  You must
have gotten your sources from uunet -- they are not patched
correctly.  To get the real rn pl44 sources, go directly to the
source (I believe bcm.tmc.edu).  Do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

>Bug#2:
>	In the newsgroups script, the "Unsubscribed but listed in .newsrc"
>	doesn't list anything at all.  After a bit of experimentation, I
>	figured out that the sed(1) command which is supposed to delete all
>	of the lines in .newsrc which don't end with a ! in fact deletes
>	every single line in .newsrc.

Unsure, but this may be fixed in the real pl44 sources as well.

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