Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!cvbnet2!robbie!pcolby From: pcolby@robbie.prime.com (Peter Colby) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: rn and multiple reads of cross posted articles Keywords: xref relay-version Message-ID: <205@cvbnet2.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 88 15:34:17 GMT References: <144@proteus.UUCP> <2484@epimass.EPI.COM> Sender: postnews@cvbnet2.UUCP Reply-To: pcolby@robbie.UUCP (Peter Colby) Distribution: na Organization: Computervision - a division of Prime Computer Lines: 41 In article <2484@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: >In article <144@proteus.UUCP> gardner@athsys.UUCP (Gardner Cohen) writes: >>Hi. I have the following version of rn: >>@(#)$Header: rn.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:05:13 lwall Exp $ >>and 2.11 news patched to level 14. > >>I get xref lines in my articles, but rn still shows me duplicate >>articles.... > >Your version of rn is too old. In version 2.10.3, the Relay-Version >header was dropped; in the original rn, this header was used to do >Xref processing. Now it's done a different way. > >Get a newer rn (try one of the comp.sources.* archive sites). ... There is actually a better way. Unfortunately, just getting the version of rn from rn doesn't give you enough info. What you need to do is go to the rn sources, look at patchlevel.h to see what patch level you are at and order all the subsequent patches from Larry Wall at JPL/NASA. rn 4.3 is currently up to patchlevel 40. Here, direct from lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov are instructions on how to do so: If you send a mail message of the following form it will greatly speed processing: Subject: Command @SH mailpatch PATH rn 4.3 LIST ^ notice the c where PATH is a return path FROM ME TO YOU in bang notation, and LIST is a list of one or more patches you need, separated by spaces, commas and/or hyphens. Saying n- will give you everything from n on up. Good Luck - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UUCP: {sun,linus,decvax}!cvbnet!pcolby UUCP: pcolby@robbie.prime.com CSNET: pcolby@robbie.prime.com