[net.news.b] possible bug in transmitting 'A' protocol by 'B 2.10.1'

crl@CSvax:Pucc-H:pur-phy.UUCP (08/03/83)

If OLD is not defined, then inews does not transmit an 'A' header
correctly.  The article id is blank--the first line consists of just
an "A".  If I read the installation document correctly, I thought
that OLD was supposed to only add extra headers for 'B' format.
The problem seems to be that oident is only set by an "Article-Id:"
header line, and isn't set if OLD is undefined.  I have only perused
the source, and so the above may be in error.  We use 'A' format
only to talk to notesfiles, and would rather not need to have OLD
defined just for that.

Charles LaBrec
pur-ee!Physics:crl
purdue!Physics:crl