Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!unmvax!ogccse!cvedc!nosun!fpssun!celit!news From: news@fps.com (NetNews Administrator) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: More questions about Bnews 2.11.18 Message-ID: <1046@celit.fps.com> Date: 30 Sep 89 05:07:38 GMT Reply-To: news@fps.com (NetNews Administrator) Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA Lines: 24 In the intro to patch 18 Rick Adams says: Specifying both I and F in the sys file will result in both the pathname and the message-id of the file being written out. This is NOT backwards compatible. For the old behavior, specify only "I" and not both "I" and "F" My question is: what's the purpose of this? My first guess was that the path name was included in the "/usr/spool/batch/systemname.ihave" file and when the "sendme" message came back, the pathnames would still be included and rnews wouldn't have to look up the path names to setup the batch (so making this operation much faster). Instead, it puts the path names in the "/usr/spool/batch/systemname" file a la "F" style followed with the message ID's. It seems to completely ignore the ".ihave" file after that. So, my question is: why would anyone want to do this? I can't think of any purpose for this. I looked through the code for batch.c and I can't see where it's used. The diffs from patch 18 don't tell me anything either. Am I missing the obvious? Bill Davidson billd@fps.com NetNews Administrator celerity!billd@ucsd.edu FPS Computing Inc., San Diego 9692 Via Excelencia ...!{ucsd|sdsu|nosc|photon|cogen}!celerity!billd San Diego CA 92126 (619) 271-9940 Ext. 242