chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/29/84)
Per hedeland (erix!per) dropped me a note which pointed out some shortcomings of my version of postnews that I posted a while back. Among other things, if you install it and don't support recordings you get spurious error messages. Also, posting to 'general' when there is a recording for 'net.general' will get the recording message. He was nice enough to ship me fixes for all of this which I have installed and am now sending to the rest of reality. I am also enclosing a couple of small patches to inews. The first removes recordings from inews, the other removes some dead code that is still hanging around but is never used. chuq --- postnews --- #! /bin/sh : : 'modified 12/8/83 by Prentiss Riddle (riddle@ut-sally.UUCP) not to ' : ' ignore a Distribution specification when invoked with a ' : ' filename argument. ' : : 'modified 4/7/84 by chuq von rospach (nsc!chuqui) to print out ' : 'recordings where appropriate. Based on version posted for usg by' : 'nwuxd!dbaker' : : ' modified 5/25/84 by chuq von rospach (nsc!chuqui) with modifications' : 'suggested by mcvax!enea!erix!per (Per Hedeland) to handle recordings' : 'more intelligently and also handle no recordings at all' : _NEWSLIB=/usr/lib/news if test $# -gt 1 ; then /bin/echo "$0: Too many args" exit 1 fi if test $# -eq 1 -a ! -r "$1" ; then /bin/echo "$0: Can't read $1" exit 1 fi /bin/echo -n "Subject: " read title /bin/echo -n "Newsgroups (general): " read ng if test x$ng = x ; then ng=general fi : play recorded message if test -s ${_NEWSLIB}/recording ; then _rec1=${_NEWSLIB}/`sed -n "/^$ng/s/^.* //p" ${_NEWSLIB}/recording` _tmp=`echo $ng |sed "s/\..*//"` _rec2=${_NEWSLIB}/`cat -s ${_NEWSLIB}/recording|grep ${_tmp}.all|sed "s/^.* //"` if test -f ${_rec1} ; then cat -s ${_rec1} fi if test -f ${_rec2} ; then cat -s ${_rec2} fi fi /bin/echo -n "Distribution ($ng): " read dist if test x$dist = x; then dist=$ng fi t=/tmp/pn$$ trap "sleep 1; cp $t $HOME/dead.article ; echo saved in $HOME/dead.article ; rm -f $t; exit" 1 trap "" 2 /bin/echo "Subject: $title" > $t /bin/echo "Newsgroups: $ng" >> $t if test $dist != $ng; then /bin/echo "Distribution: $dist" >> $t fi /bin/echo "" >> $t case $# in 0) ${EDITOR-vi} $t cd /tmp if inews -h <$t then : else if cat $t >>$HOME/dead.article then /bin/echo Article saved in $HOME/dead.article fi fi ;; 1) cat $1 >>$t cd /tmp inews -h < $t ;; esac sleep 1 rm -f $t --- end of postnews --- --- beginning of inews fix --- ------- inews.c ------- 250,258d249 < tty = isatty(fileno(stdin)); < if (!Dflag && mode != PROC && mode != CREATENG) { < if (recording(header.nbuf)) { < if (!tty) < fwait(fsubr(newssave, stdin, NULL)); < xerror("aborted due to recording"); < } < } < 662,667d652 < if (*filename) { < tty = FALSE; < infp = xfopen(filename, "r"); < } else { < infp = stdin; < } 702,703d686 < if (*filename) < fclose(infp); --- end of inews fix --- -- From the closet of anxieties of: Chuq Von Rospach {amd70,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui (408) 733-2600 x242 I'm sure I have my death ray in here somewhere...