Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!emory!jdyx!tpf 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) Lines: 35 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. -- Tom Friedel Public Access Unix BBS tpf@prism.gatech.edu ...gatech!emory!jdyx!tpf (404) 320-7624 (404) 321-5020