Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!ekrell From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news,net.bugs Subject: Re: clever ruse Message-ID: <2725@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 13:45:52 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.2725 Posted: Wed Dec 12 13:45:52 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:20:50 EST References: <6493@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.news:2777 net.bugs:489 In article <6493@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes: >Ron Natalie thought of a clever way to get rid of the >annoying appending to "author_copy" that "postnews" does. >Plant a symbolic link called "author_copy" to /dev/null! We just changed the code so that instead of appending to ~/author_copy it would write it over. This way only the last message is kept in this file. The change is very simple: just change the mode in the xfopen call from "a" (append) to "w" (write). -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell