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- CHANGES tin v1.2 PL1 -> tin 1.2 PL2
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- 1) Colin Perkins (csp@ohm.york.ac.uk)
- BUG. Compile fails on Next due to use of getcwd() in misc.c
- FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 2) Richard Lloyd (rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk)
- BUG. 'make install' fails because of wrong variable names.
- FIX. makefile - applied supplied patch.
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- 3) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)
- BUG. Return code from external news is wrong from 1.20 change.
- FIX. inews.c - changed back to pre v1.2 PL1 behaviour.
-
- 4) Mike Glendinning (mikeg@ingres.co.uk)
- BUG. directory struct dirent explicitly used instead of DIR_BUF.
- FIX. save.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 5) Pieter Immelman (pi@itu1.sun.ac.za)
- BUG. Reading xover Xref: line when not there causes SIGSEGV.
- FIX. art.c - applied supplied patch.
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- 6) Mark Tomlinson (mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz)
- BUG. Would not compile on AmigaDOS.
- FIX. applied supplied patch.
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- 7) Julian Thompson (jrt@oasis.icl.co.uk)
- BUG. input_peneding() routine does not work if HAVE_POLL is defined.
- FIX. art.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 8) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com)
- BUG. Lines not correctly formatted in check_article_to_be_posted().
- FIX. post.c - adding flushing to stdout stream.
-
- 9) Richard Lloyd (rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk)
- BUG. Would not compile on HPUX 9.X machines.
- FIX. config.h - applied supplied patch.
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- 10) Mike Glendinning (mikeg@ingres.co.uk)
- BUG. SHould make use of INN nntplib routines if available.
- FIX. tin.h init.c inews.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 11) Earle Ake (akee@wpdis11.wpafb.af.mil)
- BUG. Default mailer does not understand '@' notation on u3b2 machines.
- FIX. tin.h - applied supplied patch.
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- 12) Earle Ake (akee@wpdis11.wpafb.af.mil)
- BUG. Default mailer path is wrong on Pyramid machines.
- FIX. tin.h - applied supplied patch.
-
- 13) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com)
- BUG. Entering groups takes a lot longer than required by tin v1.20.
- FIX. tin.h newsrc.c - applied supplied patch.
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- 14) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com)
- BUG. Tcp/ip socket buffer size is very small on hpux machines.
- FIX. nntplib.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 15) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com)
- BUG. valid_artnum() routine does a linear search routine which is a
- killer in big groups. Needs converting to use a binary search.
- FIX. art.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 16) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)
- BUG. v1.21 would not allow articles to be posted if the group was not
- present in the sites active file which caused problems for sites
- that did not take a full feed.
- FIX. INSTALL post.c - Added HAVE_FACIST_NEWSADMIN to allow the message
- to be a warning or an error (facist mode).
-
- 17) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com)
- BUG. system() call does not work correctly on hpux machines.
- FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 18) Olaf Mittelstaedt
- BUG. Needs c:\tmp on a HPFS partition
- FIX. Use envvar TMPDIR for location of tmp directory
-
- 19) Malkani Sanjay (sanjay@uxmail.ust.hk) [OS/2]
- ASK. support for local newsspool
- ADD. support for local newsspool
-
- 20) Richard Stanton (stanton@haas.berkeley.edu) [OS/2]
- BUG. Cannot use C:\ as HOME.
- FIX. checking for trailing '\' in path before adding '\'
-
- 21) Andreas Wrede (andreas@scilink.org)
- BUG. Would not compile on OS/2
- FIX. applied supplied patch
-
- 22) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com)
- ADD. page.c - contributed MIME support via call to metamail.
-
- 23) Phil Molyneux (molyneux@kingston.ac.uk)
- BUG. Manual page list bug report command to be 'R' when it is actually 'B'.
- FIX. tin.1 - corrected manual page.
-
- 24) Andreas Baumann (andresb@kbfi.ee)
- BUG. Crashes if a LIST OVERVIEW.FMT is done to an ANU nntp server.
- FIX. open.c - added check to see if xover command is supported.
-
- 25) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)
- BUG. Specifying alternate news index directory does not work.
- FIX. init.c - re-added check for TIN_INDEX & -I cmd line option.
-
- 26) Werner Fleck (Fleck@tu-harburg.dbp.de)
- BUG. If a filename like "$FOO", e.g. an env var without a trailing "/"
- is used strfpath() will return a bogus filename.
- FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 27) Bryan Dongray (btd@uk.cray.com)
- BUG. Too I/O bound when doing HEAD calls via NNTP.
- FIX. art.c open.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 28) John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com)
- BUG. Article checking routine should not allow user to insert From: line.
- FIX. post.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 30) Bryan Dongray (btd@uk.cray.com)
- BUG. Does not reconnect to nntp server to timed out nntp server.
- FIX. nntplib.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 31) Kazushi Marukawa (kazushi@kubota.co.jp)
- BUG. errno is not defined in misc.c so fails on Mips machines.
- FIX. misc.c - applied supplied patch
-
- 32) Mark Tomlinson (mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz)
- BUG. sigdisp() does not always return a value from signal().
- FIX. signal.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 33) Otto Lind (otto@coactive.com)
- BUG. read_newsrc_line() wastefully calling find_group_index().
- FIX. newsrc.c - applied supplied patch.
-
- 34) Alan Thew (Alan.Thew@liverpool.ac.uk)
- BUG. does not find xref lines in Cnews generated overview files.
- FIX. art.c - added extra check for lowercase xref header string.
-
- 35) Brett Carver (brett@hpsrjtc.sr.hp.com)
- BUG. Copy of users pwd data is a ptr to static buf that returned
- from getpwnam() and can be overwritten if called again.
- FIX. init.c - saved copy of pwd entry so that its not overwriiten.
-
- 36) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com)
- BUG. The INSTALL document could be clearer in machine naming text.
- FIX. INSTALL - applied supplied patch.
-
- 37) Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net)
- BUG. Would not compile on 386BSD.
- FIX. config.h - applied supplied patch.
-
- 38) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)
- BUG. When searching for a group name should also look at description.
- FIX. search.c - modified search_group() to also check description.
-
- 39) Clifton Royston (cliftonr@netcom.com)
- ADD. active.c - auto-subscribe/unsubscribe to new newsgroups. Checks
- for the env. variables.
-
- 40) Bryan Dongray (btd@uk.cray.com)
- ADD. Recognizes mouse buttons when running in an xterm window.
-
- 41) Tom Parry (parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au)
- ADD. Added -n cmd line option to only read subscribed to groups from the
- active file and not the whole active file. This is a big win when
- reading via a slow line.
-
- 42) Iain Lea (iain.lea@erlm.siemens.de)
- ADD. When selecting a group/subject via a number it will automatically
- enter the group/article.
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-