From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!salkind Newsgroups: net.notes Title: Bug in newsinput.c Article-I.D.: cmcl2.8082 Posted: Fri Jul 23 10:48:46 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 00:21:53 1982 Here is a rather serious bug in newsinput.c: if someone from the net (in B news) replies to an article whose title ends with "- (nf)", the notes system just throws the response away. The problem is that newsinput is expecting the article to be in "almost generic" format (those two lines that start with a # at the beginning of the article). When it doesn't see a # newsinput decides the article is corrupted and throws it away. I propose those two lines needed by notes be moved into the header field of B news. Then normal B news readers won't even see these lines. Newsinput should also be changed to parse the B news format. Then it can even take advantage of the new References: field in B news to build responses instead of base notes automatically. I don't expect this to be that hard; I've already changed newsinput to be able to parse the B news header. I haven't had a chance to test things out yet though; when (and if) I do I will let you all know. We've found several other bugs in the notesfile system (mostly just minor annoyances). Should I report them in this group? I haven't fixed that many. By the way, everyone here who has tried notes seems to be quite pleased with the system. A big improvement over the B news interface. Lou Salkind