NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/windows/openloo/3635

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Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!dominic
From: [e-mail] (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: xvnews 2.0p2 crashes instead of posting on Sun4c/SunOS 4.1.1/OW 3.0
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Date: 28 Aug 92 09:13:28 GMT
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``The subject line says it all'', except that the program dumps core
with its PC somewhere in hyperspace.  I'm using the program ``straight
out of the box: all I changed were the NNTPSERVER, DOMAIN and
ORGANIZATION defines in xvnews.h.  Before I start poking about with
dbxtool, has anyone else seen and solved this particular problem?  (I
thought it might be due to having a long ORGANIZATION in a fixed-size
buff in xv_post.c.  No soap.)

Just to make life more interesting, the problem symptoms vary.
Sometimes things go up in smoke as soon as I select the ``Post''
button (in either newsgroup or article mode) ; sometimes I'm allowed
to compose a posting because xvnews is waiting to actually try to make
the post before crashing.

And another thing: I'm using Sun's cc 1.1.  Things seem to be
marginally more solid when I compile without the optimizer, but I
could be fooling myself.  I don't have guide installed, so I'm using
the libguide which came with the application.  (And, boy, what a large
binary results.)

--
Dominic Dunlop