Re: 16-Bit Overflow in Dillon UUCP

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From: Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 21:01

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peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) writes:

>I still use Dillon UUCP 1.16, it works nicely for me since more than
>two years. But now suddenly a few newsgroups, those with the biggest
>traffic like csa.advocacy, didn't show up anymore. Closer investigation
>showed that the article numbers (the filenames) were in low number
>ranges, while the entries in .newsrc had gone beyond 32000. So
>obviously UUCICO wrapped around at the 16-bit border.

>Is there any way to teach this UUCICO 32-bit arithmetics without
>recompiling everything?

uucico doesn't deal with news (or mail...)  The problem is probably in
v1.16 of rnews.

Upgrading to v1.17b4 is one easy solution.



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