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- Welcome to patch number 7 for NNTP 1.5.
-
- If you have not installed the first six patches, you must do so
- before proceeding. You can get those patches (and this one) from
- anoymous ftp on bcm.tmc.edu [128.249.2.1] or by sending a message
- to the archive-server@bcm.tmc.edu with the following text:
- send public nntp.patch.1
- send public nntp.patch.2
- send public nntp.patch.3
- send public nntp.patch.4.shar
- send public nntp.patch.5.shar
- send public nntp.patch.6.shar
-
- If you have all six patches installed, you are ready to install
- this set of patches. These patches are packaged as a shell archive.
- They are as follows:
- CHANGES.diff -- This will patch the CHANGES file in the root
- of the nntp distrbution to reflect changes since the release of 1.5.
- To install, just type patch < CHANGES.diff
- server.diff -- This patch is for the files in the server subdirectory.
- To install, change directory to the server directory and type
- patch < server.diff.
- common.diff -- This patch is for the files in the common subdirectory.
- To install, change directory to the common directory and type
- patch < common.diff
- support.diff -- This is a patch for nntp_awk in the support directory.
- To install, change directory to the support directory and type
- patch < support.diff.
- xfer.diff -- This is a patch for nntpxfer.c in the xfer directory.
- To install, change directory to the xfer directory and type
- patch < xfer.diff.
- xmit.diff -- This is a patch for nntpxmit.h and nntpxmit.c in the xfer
- directory. To install, change directory to the xmit directory and type
- patch < xmit.diff.
- inews.diff -- This patch is for the files in the inews subdirectory.
- To install, change directory to the inews directory and type
- patch < inews.diff.
-
- Please read the CHANGES file (following application of the patch) for
- a list of new features/bug fixes. This is mostly a bug fix release.
-
- Bug reports and enhancements welcome,
- Stan Barber
- sob@bcm.tmc.edu
-
- P.S. This patched version of NNTP has been compiled on the following systems:
-
- Vax 3600 running Ultrix 2.2 (BNEWS 2.11.19)
- Unisys 5000/40 running System V release 2 (BNEWS 2.11.17)
-
- It has also been tested by the fine folks at the University of Toronto to
- test compatibility with CNEWS. Special thanks to Sandra Smith.
-
- P.P.S. 1.5.8 will be out sometime around Christmas/New Year's. It will have
- some new features that came in too late for me to test them for this patch.
- Look for an announcement about 1.5.8 in news.software.nntp around Thanksgiving.
- Those include patches to nntpxmit to use Message-IDs in the batch file versus
- filenames, inode checking in addition to space checking, and better heuristics
- for rejecting news articles that have already been seen and expired.
-
- P.P.P.S. Brian Kantor has already started a discussion on new protocol features
- for NNTP. Please drop me a line so I can track the ideas. Hopefully we can
- start some prototype testing in the Spring.
-
- P.P.P.P.S. [getting ridiculous, eh?] I will be posting a revised collection
- of patches for RN that will replace the ones in the 1.5 distibution. These
- patches will allow RN and RRN to be built from the same sources. I am in the
- process of working with Larry Wall to determine if these will be offical or
- not.
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