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From: Peter Vincent
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00

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cc to John Smith.

Yesterday and today I have been having problems downloading mail using
Freenews.  Yesterday I was repeatedly getting errors, which on clicking on
Describe were shown as "Buffer too short".  Today I got this once, and then
kept getting "Invalid object (0x31373274)".

The problem seems to be caused by something in comp.sys.acorn.misc, since
debatching showed that to be the last newsgroup for which anything had been
received, and deleting it from the newsfeed overcame the problems.

The logfile (level 2) seems no help.  One of the relevant sections is:

-------begin quote------
ARTICLE < [article id snipped] >

Wed May 28, 22:00.11: FreeNews 1.14: >Sent:> quit

Wed May 28, 22:00.11: FreeNews 1.14: Terminating

Wed May 28, 22:00.13: FreeNews 1.14: Performing IDfile housekeeping
Wed May 28, 22:00.32: FreeNews 1.14: Terminating

Wed May 28, 22:00.35: FreeNews 1.14: Performing IDfile housekeeping
--------end quote------

Each time I had the invalid object error seems to have been after the same
article, but yesterday's errors don't seem to be after a consistent article,
so far as I can see.

Have other users been experiencing similar problems? and does anyone know
the cause, and/or cure? I am using Freenews 1.14, Newsbase 0.58 and TTFN
0.39 as part of the Acornet suite.

-- 
Peter Vincent

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From: peter@vincefam.demon.co.uk (Peter Vincent)
Subject: Freenews - problems with c.s.a.misc?
Date: 1997/05/28
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