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Jason Molenda:
>I'm calling relaynews with `-g' on our news numbering master machine
>and with `-b umn.edu' on our slave news reading machines
[...]
>I'm running SunOS 4.1.2 and I believe I applied all of the
>known.problems patches.  I'm not using the fast stdio stuff.  Has
>anyone seen this?  I find it hard to believe that something like this
>has gone unnoticed all this time so I suspect it is somehow my fault.
>:-)

The replication code was new and marked as somewhat experimental in the
performance release.  I believe this diff will fix the problems you are
seeing:

*** relay/fileart.c.old	Mon Jan 11 19:56:34 1993
--- relay/fileart.c	Mon Jan 11 19:56:35 1993
***************
*** 164,169 ****
--- 164,174 ----
  	}
  	if (ngs == NULL)
  		art->a_status |= ST_DROPPED;		/* bummer */
+ 	else
+ 		/* convert any spaces to commas for fileart */
+ 		for (groups = ngs; *groups != '\0'; groups++)
+ 			if (*groups == ' ')
+ 				*groups = NGSEP;
  	return ngs;
  }
  
***************
*** 222,227 ****
--- 227,234 ----
  			gotgoodng(art, ng, artnumstr);
  		free(ng);
  
+ 		if (numb != NULL)		/* number supplied? */
+ 			*--numb = XREFDELIM;	/* restore lost byte */
  		if (comma != NULL)
  			*comma++ = NGSEP;	/* step past comma */
  
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group