Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: legs - and magled subject lines Message-ID: <15417@watmath.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:11:19 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.15417 Posted: Tue Jun 25 18:11:19 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:33:03 EDT References: <694@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17 Keywords: Fix your postnews In article <694@ihlpg.UUCP> sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) writes: >Before I get any flames about ROTting something and not marking it as ROTted, >let me just say that I thought that readnews would mark the Subject line for >me. I was wrong. You were right. Postnews (in C) for news 2.10.2 has a trivial bug in it. It does make a very nice heading, but unfortunatly writes all over itself in the process. The fix is trivial. (i.e. Do it now) Go to the postnews.c file, and look for where it asks you the "could this be offensive" question. At that point, it uses the buffer buf as a parameter to a call. Create a new buf, call it jbuf for joke-buf, and use that in that place rather than buf. Ta da - your postnews now behaves. John