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- From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
- Subject: Re: strange cnews problem
- Message-ID: <030193i0733@hamburg.uucp>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 06:17:26 GMT
- References: <steve.00h4@Celeborn.lvunix.com>
- <1992Dec25.032225.2753@ckctpa.UUCP> <271292c0736@hamburg.uucp>
- <1992Dec30.025821.2361@ckctpa.UUCP>
- Sender: news@hamburg.uucp (Where No News Have Gone Before)
- Reply-To: Kai 'wusel' Siering <wusel@hactar.hanse.de>
- Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
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- In article <1992Dec30.025821.2361@ckctpa.UUCP>, Frank "Crash" Edwards writes:
-
- % Referring to Steve's question:
- %
- % >% >Ok I have another problem with the latest version from Frank Edwards. No
- % >% >matter what I do rec.games.rouge articles get tossed in the junk directory.
- % >% >My entry in my active file looks like this,
- % >% >
- % >% >rec.games.rouge 00000000 00000001 y
- ^^^
- This problem has been solved already, but ...
-
- % I said:
- %
- % >% Does the "sys" file allow it? Look in NewsCtl:sys for the "ME" line
- % >% and check the subscription list.
- %
- % To which Kai replied:
- %
- % >In other words: given a valid entry in the active file, the `ME' line is
- % >not even consulted (according to the documentation; haven't checked this
- % >in the source yet) ...
- %
- % Silly me. Make sure that the fields of the ACTIVE file are separated
- % with tabs instead of spaces. As I recall, the version of ACTIVE.C in
- % the LIBSYS directory does a strchr() for a tab instead of using
- % something like strspn() or some such.
-
- No, _please_ don't touch your ACTIVE files! I just checked Frank's
- assertion against the source (`cn:relay/active.c'): in findfield() one
- finds "ngline = strchr(ngline, ' ');", in other words, the delimeter HAS
- TO BE ' ' (space), NOT '\t' (tab)!
- Have to check the documentation wheter `whitespace' or `space' is menti-
- oned -- but in `cnews-020592/relay/- active.c' one finds this too, thus
- I assume the use of space as the only delimeter is intentional ...
-
- Don't get confused ...
- kai
-
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