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From: tpf@jdyx.UUCP (Tom Friedel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C News, 386/ix, assorted questions/experiences
Message-ID: <1989Aug13.161806.15829@jdyx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 16:18:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: JDyx Enterprises (Atlanta GA)
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Some assorted C News experiences.  Please excuse anything that
has already been discussed, or any of my misinformation.

I am running 386/ix.  The libstdio code fails only in one case,
and that is when stdiock.fast -i -u is sent to stdout.  I get the
message that _cnt is not compatible.  Why, and will this be a problem.

I am running nn, which expires based upon 3 field in active file.  
C News does not update this field with expire, and upact is murder
on my disk drive.  Expire -c 'checks consistency of active file'. 
What exactly does expire -c do?  And what is the best way to use NN
with C News?

If i get an article that is posted to two newsgroups, one which i get
and one which I don't, C News will put it into the first group
on the newsgroups: line (creating the directory if necessary), regardless 
of whether or not this group is in my sys file.

When I first tried to build C News with dbz, I got a segmentation fault
in dbz hash(). I rebuilt with dbm and all was OK.  I am guessing that
i needed to do a mkhistory before posting to the newly created C News
with dbz, but have not confirmed this theory.  

Thanks,

Tom

Looking through the code, you see things like 'super-kludge for B News
backward compatability' all over the place.  Wouldn't it be great if
every one would agree C News is 'the' news software, and all this could
be ripped out.
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