earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle) (12/13/85)
Has anybody out there implemented the code needed for vnews
to be able to fetch the parent article (via the 'p' option)??
I am running B 2.10.2 9/18/84; the code in question is needed
for 'visual.c'. Namely, I need an implementation of the header
file "db.h", which should contain a definition for the structure
"artrec", amoung other things. Also, an implementation of the
functions "lookart" (which searches the dbm'ed version of the history
file for the parent article), "opendb" (opens history.{pag,dir},
shouldn't be hard), and "getng" (??get news group??). At present,
(at least on my system) any 'p' option request returns
"<XXX@foobar.UUCP> not found" even if the parent is less than 10 articles
back in the same newsgroup. All of the above are referenced in
visual.c inside #ifdef MYDB ... #endif blocks; most important is
to look at the function 'findparent' at the end of the file.
Is this implemented in 2.10.3? I just don't have the time to try and
do it myself (I get *paid* to program - they say 'Jump!', I jump).
Thanks.
Greg Earle
Pet Expulsion Laboratory
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