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In article <Bvt8I7.Cuu@news.larc.nasa.gov>, jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm having a
> problem with rn. When I try to start it up I get the message:
> 
> Too many lines in .newsrc
> 

Mmmmm.. compile a newer version of rn: 

@(#)$Id: rn.c,v 4.4.4.1 1992/02/23 21:25:39 sob PATCH_4 sob $

Or simply change in one of the .h files a global variable that
contains the maximum number of lines of your .newsrc

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> > I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this,

News.software.readers would have been better.  If there is more to say
on this, I suggest starting a new thread there.

> > but I'm having a
> > problem with rn. When I try to start it up I get the message:
> > Too many lines in .newsrc

> Mmmmm.. compile a newer version of rn ...
> Or simply change in one of the .h files a global variable that
> contains the maximum number of lines of your .newsrc

That's in common.h, and you actually have to change two things.
When increasing MAXRC, don't forget to also increase HASHSIZ, which
as it says on the next line has to be a prime number at least 10%
greater than MAXRC.  Here, due to an editing error we accidentally
made it a composite number smaller than MAXRC, and the result was
that rn locked up!  (Actually I'm talking about trn, but I expect this
is all the same in rn.)

However, my impression was that the original poster was not a newsadmin.
All this advice is for the newsadmin.  The original poster can meanwhile
adopt the workaround of deleting from their .newsrc file some lines
corresponding to unsubscribed groups (i.e. lines with ! in them).
Rn will then at least start up.

I have also emailed copies of both responses to the poster, since they
are presumably unable to read them in news at the moment!
-- 
Mark Brader			"Bad news disturbs his game; so does good;
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 so also does the absence of news."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				-- Stephen Leacock

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In article <Bvt8I7.Cuu@news.larc.nasa.gov> jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
>I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'm having a
>problem with rn. When I try to start it up I get the message:
>
>Too many lines in .newsrc
>
>it then aborts. anyone know how to solve this problem? Everything works
>fine if I use xrn. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>-- 
>************************      Don't just do it!     ***********************
>Lockheed Eng. and Sci. Co./Nasa Larc|J. Keith Alston jka@windshear.larc.nasa.gov
I just had this problem and the best advice seemed to get the latest rn
(v4.4.3) which apparently dynamically allocates for more news groups.

The alternative is to modify MAXRCLINE in common.h and rebuild rn.

Either way a rebuild is necessary so why not get the latest.

I am still testing rn in that I am just below (one in fact) the max.


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