tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (11/24/89)
Would anyone who has gotten the "rna" readnews which comes with C News
to work please contact me via e-mail. I've finally tried to put it
together for the sake of one of my users who wants to use it in a
non-interactive script for batch processing of some articles (he used
to use the old readnews back when we had B News).
I edited defs.h and the Makefile. It compiled fine but ended up core
dumping in getline() in newsrc.c. I fixed that by making it also
check whether the character which it getc()'ed was a newline; where it
had dumped core was trying to parse a line of "news.announce.newgroups:"
which newsetup would produce as default -- the lack of trailing space
made it create one _huge_ "word" of all the groups in the file.
Now it doesn't core dump, but it doesn't give me any news either. Oh
wait, it does dump still -- "readnews -s+ some.group" dies in subsub()
because slist is a nil pointer. "readnews -n rpi.news" will mark all
articles as read for the group but won't show any.
I haven't seen any bug reports about it, so I am really curious what
my problem is. Is it just that no one bothers with this? Or is that
black cat that crossed my path as I walked under a ladder yesterday
really having an affect on my life?
Pretty common system configuration: SunOS 4.0.3, Sun 3/280. The C
News is current through the November patch.
Dave
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(setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (11/28/89)
In article <256CE0EB.2F3A@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: >Would anyone who has gotten the "rna" readnews which comes with C News >to work please contact me via e-mail... >I haven't seen any bug reports about it, so I am really curious what >my problem is. Is it just that no one bothers with this? Or is that >black cat that crossed my path ... Most people use more sophisticated news readers, and the ones who do use rna use it mostly as a dead-simple reader for novices. (Both of C News's "home systems" do that, for example.) Its various options and such have not been exercised very well for a long time. It's definitely somewhat cranky about the format of the .newsrc file. We would welcome fixes for it, but it's not high on our own priorities. -- That's not a joke, that's | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology NASA. -Nick Szabo | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu