sob@lib.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (03/12/90)
This articles announces the availability of NNTP 1.5.8. This version contants the following enhancements/fixes: Better support for SCO Xenix 2.3 with TCP/IP. [sob@bcm.tmc.edu] Better integration of nntpxmit and nntpxfer with the rest of the distribution. [muller%sdcc7@ucsd.edu] Inodes can now be checked to availability as well as disk space. See the new parameter MINFILES in common/README and common/conf.h.dist. [budd@bu.edu] USG systems with DBM can use it (assuming you compiled your news to use it) with less problems from nntp getting compiled wrong. [igb@fulcrum.british-telecom.co.uk] IHAVE speed up by having gethistent() just do a check for an article instead of a full retrieval. [fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Maddox), david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)] If the article is garbled, it should be rejected. Hopefully, it will be now. [ warren@schizo.samsung.com (Warren Lavallee)] nntp now sets the USER and LOGNAME environmental variables to POSTER if POSTER is defined. This is mostly for CNEWS.[weening@neon.stanford.edu] mini-inews now places the fully qualified domain name in the Path: lie to help those poor unfortunate that still think it supposed to contain a valid route for return mail. [ david@wiley.UUCP (David Hull) ] The reply to XHDR no longer appends extra blank lines. [ (Pekka Kytolaakso) netmgr@finsun.csc.fi ] This version has been compiled successfully on the following platforms: Vax 3600 running Ultrix 3.1 (BNEWS 2.11.19) Solbourne Series 5/601 with OS/MP 4.0C (SunOS 4.0.3c compatible) (Same BNEWS) HP 9000/825 running HP-UX A.B3.00.5B Wyse-386 running SCO XENIX 2.3 with TCP/IP 1.0 VAX 11/780 running BSD 4.3-tahoe Silicon Graphics IRIS-4D running IRIX 3.2.1 The fully patched version is available via anonymous ftp from lib.tmc.edu [129.106.5.1]. Look in the public directory for nntp.1.5.8.tar. A compressed version is also on line. Look in comp.sources.bugs for the patches.