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2 total messages Started by David Eaves Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:34

#96

Author: David Eaves
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:34

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I have had a news batch arrive which uuqxt/rnews failed to process.  The
problem is that uuxqt spawns rnews with an incorrect filename so that
rnews is unable to find the file to process.  I am running AmigaUUCP
1.17 beta 4.

The X. file from my provider is as follows:

  U root southern
  F D.southerd01bt
  I D.southerd01bt
  C rnews

However the file in my spool dir is actually D.southerd01btt (note the
extra 't' at the end).

Where could the problem lie here?  Could it have anything to do with
AmigaUUCP's case munging, or is the providers software at fault here
(they are running on a Sun using Taylor UUCP I think)?

Thanks,
Dave
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Re: Failed news batch

#116

Author: Michael B. Smith
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 22:33

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In article <dave.08d6@ccom.co.nz> dave@ccom.co.nz (David Eaves) writes:
> I have had a news batch arrive which uuqxt/rnews failed to process.  The
> problem is that uuxqt spawns rnews with an incorrect filename so that
> rnews is unable to find the file to process.	I am running AmigaUUCP
> 1.17 beta 4.

Hmmm.

> The X. file from my provider is as follows:
>
>   U root southern
>   F D.southerd01bt
>   I D.southerd01bt
>   C rnews
>
> However the file in my spool dir is actually D.southerd01btt (note the
> extra 't' at the end).
>
> Where could the problem lie here?  Could it have anything to do with
> AmigaUUCP's case munging, or is the providers software at fault here
> (they are running on a Sun using Taylor UUCP I think)?

I don't _think_ it's with the case munging. The code in uuxqt tries to
lock the un-munged filename first:

	/*
	**  If unable to find file it could be munge-cased
	*/
	if (lock = Lock (dfile, SHARED_LOCK))
		UnLock (lock);
	else
		mungecase_filename (dfile, dfile);

been this way for quite a while.
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  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us

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