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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
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Date: 20 Sep 88 15:34:17 GMT
References: <144@proteus.UUCP> <2484@epimass.EPI.COM>
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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

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