From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: net.news.b Title: long source paths blow rnews Article-I.D.: utzoo.2175 Posted: Tue Jun 15 20:54:39 1982 Received: Tue Jun 15 20:54:39 1982 The char array that news uses to hold the source path is dimensioned as BUFLEN, i.e. 128. Yes, Virginia, it is entirely possible to get long paths than this, for example: From: decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcatta!sdcattb!sdcarl!ucsfcgl!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!tekmdp!emmyl (This is real, it's the one off tekmdp.1255.) The symptom is that you get urps like "Cannot reread article" if you have comprehensive error reporting from rnews (i.e. an arrangement whereby any complaints get mailed to somebody appropriate) and you simply lose news otherwise. Redimensioning it to LBUFLEN might fix this, although you'd need to fix at least one fgets() call as well, and perhaps other places. I haven't tried it yet; I'll report when I do.