netnews@wnuxb.UUCP (Ron Heiby) (10/06/84)
I have installed the inews.c.2.pat in a test version of my 2.10.2 inews (along with the corresponding patches for header.h and header.c) on my Unix 5.0.5 system (AT&T 3B20S). I'd appreciate it if anyone out there who has successfully done this would get in touch with me. Maybe someone can tell me what I've done wrong. What I get after feeding an article file to my test inews is that SPOOL/.inaxxxxx gets created with my article and my signature appended. This file is left behind when inews is through. A zero length file is created as SPOOL/.araxxxxx and is linked to names corresponding to where the real live article should be (e.g. SPOOL/test/8 and SPOOL/net/test/403). All such zero-length files are left behind when inews is through. I believe that I have defined (-DDOXREFS) in the makefile for inews.o and for header.o. I have not installed any LINKART patches, as I don't plan to run under Eunice in this lifetime. The "xxxxx" in the above filenames are filled in with digits. When I was doing beta testing of rn, under 2.10, I had the same problem. I wasn't so careful that time, and incoming news got botched in the same manner. Help!? Thanks. -- Ronald W. Heiby AT&T Something (used to be Comp Sys Div, but don't ask me now.), Inc. Lisle, IL (CU-D21) / ...!ihnp4!wnuxa!heiby or ...!ihnp4!wnuxb!netnews