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Re: short overflow in Dnews and Arn

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From: Paul MacDonald
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 1990 10:51
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>In article <dillon.8318@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>In article <901225.153012.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Eric Edwards) writes:
>>One question.	HOW is it supposed to roll over?  I suspect you mean that rnews
>>will restart the article numbers from 1.
>
>    Right.
>
>				-Matt

I missed the thread here, but the subject header describes a problem I
am having with RNEWS - Short Overflow - and INFORM.

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From: paul@wa1omm.UUCP (Paul MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:   short overflow in Dnews and Arn
Message-ID: <paul.5054@wa1omm.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 10:51:24 GMT
References: <901225.153012.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu> <dillon.8318@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
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