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From: tish@adiron.UUCP (Tish Esposito)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: problems with readnews
Message-ID: <273@adiron.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 10:43:58 EST
Article-I.D.: adiron.273
Posted: Fri Nov  1 10:43:58 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 04:25:54 EST
Organization: PAR Technology, New Hartford, NY
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We are running the netnews distributed with 4.2BSD - version 2.10.1
When articles in net.unix-wizards ran beyond 8192 - readnews dumped
core.  After perusing the sources a bit it was discovered that a 
char bitmap[1024] is being used to keep track of articles read by
a user (8 * 1024 = 8192) so our problem seemed apparent. After some
more looking however there seemed to be some other inconsistensies
in netnews bookeeping. Articles may go as high as 99998, and in one
place in the code the bitmap array is cleared from 0 to 99998/8
(12500) entries.  I'm sure that other sites have experienced this
problem. Before hacking away at this code, I was wondering any
site already has a fix for this problem. Any help or suggestions
would be appreciated. Please respond via mail to duke!adiron!tish.
Thanks!!