Re: short overflow in Dnews and Arn

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3 total messages Started by Eric Edwards Tue, 25 Dec 1990 21:30

#7687

Author: Eric Edwards
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 1990 21:30

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In Message-ID: <dillon.8086@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
          dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) said:
>In article <901220.223410.CST.C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu> C506634@UMCVMB.MISSO
>>So, does anyone out there have a copy of Dnews or Arn patched or recompiled to
>>used 32 bit ints?  If you do I would greatly apreciate a copy.
>    Just clear out the directory, including the .next file, and the
>    articles will be reset to start at 1 again.
>
>    The limitation has nothing to do with how DNews was compiled...
>    ints are in fact 32 bits.  It has to do with a purposeful
>    limitation in the maximum article number.  Theoretically it
>    was *supposed* to roll over automatically.   Obviously there
>    are a few bugs in that department.
One question.  HOW is it supposed to roll over?  I suspect you mean that rnews
will restart the article numbers from 1.
I don't use rnews, or for that matter, any other part of UUCP1.06d but dnews.
There are no nearby unix machines from which I can get a feed.  So I use
custom system to ftp news to an IBM mainframe and then download.

Rather than writing a renaming program it is much simpler to just leave them
as is if Dnews will let me do that.

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Re: short overflow in Dnews and Arn

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Author: Matthew Dillon
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 06:29

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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
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Re: short overflow in Dnews and Arn

#7711

Author: 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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