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- System: rn version 4.3
- Patch #: 28
- Priority: MEDIUM
- Subject: Won't add new newsgroups that don't have a spool directory yet.
- From: dsp@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave St. Pierre)
-
- Description:
-
- rn and inews seem to be in conflict as to what should be in a
- well-formed newgroup. inews updates the active file but doesn't
- run the mkdir until the first article arrives. rn announces
-
- "No mod.mac.binaries!"
-
- and for all intents and purposes ignores that newsgroup until you
- later "manually" add it to your .newsrc (like with the 'g' command).
-
- This has been a tolerable situation in the past but with 150 or so
- newgroups about to flood the net, and not all of them having an article
- tagged with it, we're going to have a few unhappy rn readers.
-
- Rick feels that it's rn's problem. Larry may or may not disagree.
- The fix was rather trivial to inews (call mknewsg in c_newgroup)
- and may be equally easy in rn. Can one of the two come up with an
- "official" fix?
-
- Fix: This oughta do it. In this case, it deletes a call.
-
- From rn, say "| patch -d DIR", where DIR is your rn source directory.
- Outside of rn, say "cd DIR; patch <thisarticle". If you don't have
- the patch program, apply the following by hand, or get patch.
-
- If patch indicates that patchlevel is the wrong version, you may need
- to apply one or more previous patches, or the patch may already
- have been applied. See the patchlevel file to find out what has or
- has not been applied. In any event, don't continue with the patch.
-
- Index: patchlevel
- Prereq: 27
- 1c1
- < Patch #: 27
- ---
- > Patch #: 28
-
- Index: rcstuff.c
- Prereq: 4.3.1.4
- *** rcstuff.c.old Thu Jul 24 14:10:38 1986
- --- rcstuff.c Thu Jul 24 14:10:46 1986
- ***************
- *** 1,4
- ! /* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall Exp $
- *
- * $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
- * Revision 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall
-
- --- 1,4 -----
- ! /* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall Exp $
- *
- * $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
- * Revision 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall
- ***************
- *** 1,6
- /* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall Exp $
- *
- * $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
- * Revision 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall
- * Improved %m in in_char().
- *
-
- --- 1,9 -----
- /* $Header: rcstuff.c,v 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall Exp $
- *
- * $Log: rcstuff.c,v $
- + * Revision 4.3.1.5 86/07/24 14:09:10 lwall
- + * Removed check for spool directory existence in get_ng.
- + *
- * Revision 4.3.1.4 85/09/10 11:04:44 lwall
- * Improved %m in in_char().
- *
- ***************
- *** 245,252
- set_ngname(what);
- ng = find_ng(ngname);
- if (ng == nextrcline) { /* not in .newsrc? */
- ! if (eaccess(ngdir,0) ||
- ! (softptr[ng] = findact(buf,ngname,strlen(ngname),0L)) < 0 ) {
- dingaling();
- #ifdef VERBOSE
- IF(verbose)
-
- --- 248,254 -----
- set_ngname(what);
- ng = find_ng(ngname);
- if (ng == nextrcline) { /* not in .newsrc? */
- ! if ((softptr[ng] = findact(buf,ngname,strlen(ngname),0L)) < 0 ) {
- dingaling();
- #ifdef VERBOSE
- IF(verbose)
-