z@rocksvax.UUCP (Jim Ziobro) (12/25/84)
I was wrong about the line for saving a newsgroup. It turns out there
is NO way to do it in news which 'understands' Distribution clauses. Since
I do not know what Distributions are supposed to do I have turned them off
in my news. If you want to do it for your news system I have included an easy
way.
I think we need some discussion of what exactly the distribution
facility should do. We should have been tipped off when the syntax of the
sys files changed from 'net.all,usa.all,na.all...' to 'net,usa,na...'
Look for a discussion in net.news.
*** header.c.CKP Mon Dec 24 23:39:01 1984
--- header.c Mon Dec 24 23:10:40 1984
***************
*** 176,181
break;
case DISTRIBUTION:
getfield(hp->distribution);
break;
case ORGANIZATION:
getfield(hp->organization);
--- 176,186 -----
break;
case DISTRIBUTION:
getfield(hp->distribution);
+ #ifdef BUGDistrib
+ /* IGNORE ANY Distribution: clause */
+ /* This causes problems for distributing single groups */
+ hp->distribution[0]='\000';
+ #endif BUGDistrib
break;
case ORGANIZATION:
getfield(hp->organization);
--
//Z\\
James M. Ziobro
Ziobro.Henr@Xerox.ARPA
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