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[ This article re-posted by hand at hico2 ]

I hope someone has come across this problem and solved it.  First the
story:  at first I could get news just fine but couldn't post, then after
re-installation, I could post locally but local postings never went out and
all the incoming batches ended up in .../in.coming/bad as *.Z.t files.  No
amount of putting them back in .../in.coming would get them processed.
Then I started seeing 

	relaynews: unknown sysflag `j' given

in the mail cnews sends.

I tried recompiling with cc, gcc, ccc and ggg.  The make r regression test
in cnews/relay apparently passes without any message after "comparing output".

I tried an executable of relaynews compiled on a different system with an
apparently working cnews.  Same thing.  Then I tried this, after su'ing to
news in /usr/spool/news/in.coming:

	cat <batch-number>.Z.t | /usr/lib/newsbin/relay/relaynews -n

I get the following message:

	/usr/lib/newsbin/relay/relaynews: unknown sysflag `j' given

What the hell is going on?  I certainly didn't give any j flag.  I tried
re-booting: nothing.  I tried giving relaynews no options at all: same
problem.  I went through the known.problems files and fixed what needed
to be fixed for it to even compile.

Any help will be greatly appreciated: build.def options (although I think I
got those right), or anything at all.

Please respond by mail as I can't unbatch my rapidly filling .../in.coming/bad
directory.  I am thoroughly disgusted by now, after having spent the whole
weekend compiling and recompiling, testing and retesting, etc...  I should
have stuck with the ancient version that at least used to work fine...

Thanks, I'll summarize.

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