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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn and multiple reads of cross posted articles
Keywords: xref relay-version
Message-ID: <2484@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 88 04:50:57 GMT
References: <144@proteus.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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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).  If
anyone has a newer rn and sees this problem, there are a couple of
possible causes:

a) You didn't define DOXREFS when you built 2.11 news,

b) You didn't answer "y" to rn's "Configure" question, "Are you
running at least version 2.10.3 of news".
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