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From: crken@sdrc.UUCP (Ken Shackelford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: problems with News expire on HP 9000/840
Summary: Another fix
Message-ID: <345@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 88 13:12:20 GMT
References: <124@uceng.uc.edu> <5950011@hpccc.HP.COM>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
Lines: 21

In article <5950011@hpccc.HP.COM>, okamoto@hpccc.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto) writes:
> In article <124@uceng.uc.edu>, kamat@uceng.uc.edu (Govind N. Kamat) writes:
> 
> > I have been having problems with News 2.11.14 ever since I 
> > installed it on our HP 9000/840 running HP-UX (HP's version 
> > of System V with Berkeley enhancements).  The problems are 
> > mainly with expire.
> 
> One problem I have had with expire is with the ndir.o module.  This
> will cause expire to run funny.  If you manually compile expire without
> ndir.o, expire should work okay.

  Also, there is a preprocessor variable (HP9K5) that can be used to fix
this problem (our 9000/825 works fine).  I believe it is referenced in the
file "ndir.h".


Ken Shackelford  (The Wizard of Odd)        UUCP: uunet!sdrc!crken
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