Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site qantel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!qantel!stv From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Re: suggested enhancement to rn Message-ID: <321@qantel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 17:49:51 EST Article-I.D.: qantel.321 Posted: Wed Nov 28 17:49:51 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:52:14 EST References: <319@qantel.UUCP> <1498@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) Distribution: net Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA Lines: 26 In article <1498@sdcrdcf.UUCP> lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) writes: >[advice to the newslorn] > >In article <319@qantel.UUCP> stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) writes: >>...I had in mind something like: >> >>when the reader has read this article, change his .newsrc to mark it as >>read in all groups listed in the "Newsgroups" line. > >Perhaps you left out or mangled a hunk of the inews patch. > Well, I don't ususally mangle things like this, but I got a virgin inews.c out of archives, and applied patches inews.c.2.pat and inews.c.17-c to it, and whatdya know, the two lines that put the system name in Xref lines showed up on the diffs listing. I used "patch" this time, instead of doing it by hand, so I know I didn't miss anything else. The Xrefs patching looked good to me before, without my system name, because I didn't know what they were supposed to look like. Thanks again, Larry, you're a wizard! -- Steve Vance {dual,nsc,intelca,proper}!qantel!stv Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA