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Article #5136Re: postnews throwing messages away
From: Larry Wall
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1986 17:39
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1986 17:39
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In article <1552@oddjob.UUCP> matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) writes:
>I got the same aggravation from Pnews+inews. A nice friendly
>"inews: active file too long" and no saved article anywhere.
>(2.10.2 - still waiting for the last dribbles of 2.11)
This was fixed OVER A YEAR AGO, in patch #25. Either your rn is woefully
underpatched, or you never installed it after patching it, or somebody has
screwed around with your Pnews, or you didn't look for the .article file
in your home directory, which is supposed to stay around until the next time
you run Pnews.
Yes, I got the same aggravation from Pnews+inews. Once. A long time ago.
It didn't happen twice to me, let me assure you.
Here's to better software.
(Aside to the person who thinks 35 patches indicates rn is too complex--
note that this is 35 patches since May of 1985. That's about 2 patches
per month. And some of those are upgrades, not bug fixes.)
(Aside to the person who thinks I should post a new version pretty soon so
people don't have to apply 35 patches--gimme a month or so and you'll have it.)
Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ll-xn!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!usc-oberon!sdcrdcf!lwall From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: postnews throwing messages away Message-ID: <3423@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Nov-86 12:39:29 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.3423 Posted: Fri Nov 14 12:39:29 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 01:04:10 EST References: <541@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <1552@oddjob.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Organization: System Development Corporation R&D, Santa Monica Lines: 25