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Re: 16-Bit Overflow in Dillon UUCP

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From: Michael B. Smith
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:58
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In article <aTmosh.19xl@amiga.ow.nl> aTmosh@amiga.ow.nl (Thomas Tavoly) writes:
> In article <peterk.0m38@combo.ganesha.com> peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) writes:
> > Is there any way to teach this UUCICO 32-bit arithmetics without
> > recompiling everything?
>
> Not AFAIK, you need to edit the .next files every now and then, or simply
> erase your newstree completely. I have been using 1.17b4 for a year now,
> BTW, this version has quite some bugfixes, especially in sendmail. I don't
> know if the 32k boundary has been fixed for news, but my UULIB:seq file
> shows ~59000, so maybe it was.

The 32K boundary has been removed. You shouldn't need to edit anything.
I've got a couple of groups with numbers in the 250K area.
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  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Subject: Re: 16-Bit Overflow in Dillon UUCP
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