Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!crl From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: getting rid of Orphaned Response Message-ID: <1493@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 15:37:51 EST Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1493 Posted: Mon Oct 29 15:37:51 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Oct-84 00:35:30 EST References: <427@amd.UUCP> <-1025373@sneaky.UUCP> Reply-To: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 43 Summary: >Have you got a program that takes the text (note: NO HEADERS) of a response, >who originated it, when it was posted, what group it's in, and a notes >id number of the base note, which is NOT available for reference, and >generates a title? The transmission of a response does NOT include a title. >If it did, the problem would never have appeared in the first place. That's true, I had forgotten about the case where notesfiles sites transfer articles between one another in notesfiles format. However, I think that the majority of the problem occurs at the notes/news interfaces, since I feel that it is extremely simple for replies to arrive before the basenote from news rather than notes. It could at least be fixed at these points. >It's rather difficult to run news if you don't have any news feeds within >affordable distance (local call in 817 area code), because everyone else is >running notes, and all you have to interface news with is the really old >and horrible notes/news interface. True, if you have no choice, you're stuck. We kept both versions around for about a year, and two copies of the junk is just too much wasted disk space. >Also, my version of rn still dumps core occasionally. Larry Wall did a >fantastic job in trying to make rn portable, and from what I have seen, the >user interface is excellent, too. I think there are a few bugs still lurking >around, and I'm still not sure it beats notes. I don't have it working to >the point I can believe it really works grouping topics together as well as >notes does. Bugs #1-#19 have been posted that fix most of the problems found. (One more is lurking, waiting for the "official" fix. Raise the declaration of filename[] in filexp() in intrp.c to LBUFLEN from MAXFILENAME until something better comes along.) We run on a PDP-11/44 and right now rn is very stable. As to whether it beats notesfiles, I think so, but that's just my opinion. > Gordon Burditt > convex!ctvax!trsvax!sneaky!gordon > microsoft!trsvax!sneaky!gordon Charles LaBrec UUCP: pur-ee!Physics:crl, purdue!Physics:crl INTERNET: crl @ pur-phy.UUCP