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In article <828485692.18145@thokk.demon.co.uk>
   malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir) writes:
> Mark Rogers (mcr@holly.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> > The "code" to call '00000000' junk is ~\spool\news\ACTIVE, and I have 
> > indeed changed this. My point is that Addgroup is not looking at ALIAS, 
> > but making assumptions which it perhaps should not. Addgroup certainly 
> > has access to ALIAS in order to do its job, after all.
> 
> What is ALIAS ? It is not to my recollection part of Snews ?

ALIAS is a typo - should have been ACTIVE, sorry.

> The newsgroup name of '0000000' for junk is built into Snews and the
> support utilities. There is no support for any form of newsgroup file
> name other than the 8 digit numeric format.

Othe 8 digit numeric names would also fail, of-course. I know I am not 
the only one using mnemonic names for the newsgroup files - most users, 
of-course, never play with the files directly and would have no need for 
such features.

If this isn't easily 'fixed' then it isn't too important, but others with 
similar newsbase filenames ought to be warned! If it's just addgroup that 
does this then there ought to be no real problem, but if other utilities 
do likewise somebody will come unstuck eventually.

(There was talk of a mod to Addgroup to generate meaningful filenames 
automatically - John, are you there? - and if that were incorporated into 
the standard release then the 00000000 assumption would need fixing 
then.)

Mark.
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