rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (11/12/87)
For those of you who would like to play with C news, but don't want to spend a lot of time at it, the easiest and most useful change you can make (in my opinion) is to switch to C expire. The rattiness of B expire is what inspired C news originally. C expire is much faster and gives you the kind of flexibility you need to manage news expiration these days. The only change I made to C expire was to add setlinebuf(stderr) near the beginning. In debug mode it generates lots of output on stderr. For best results, if you want to run C expire and B everything else, you need to at least fix inews to generate the history file in C news format. This mod is switched on #ifdef CHIST, which I define in defs.h. It also includes the mod to put the date in arpa format, which is harmless. *** /news/2.11/src/inews.c Fri Nov 6 16:33:48 1987 --- inews.c Thu Nov 12 10:24:13 1987 *************** *** 848,853 int is_invalid = FALSE; int exitcode = 0; long now; #ifdef DOXREFS register char *nextref = header.xref; #endif /* DOXREFS */ --- 881,887 ----- int is_invalid = FALSE; int exitcode = 0; long now; + char expbuf[24]; #ifdef DOXREFS register char *nextref = header.xref; #endif /* DOXREFS */ *************** *** 857,863 is_invalid = ngfcheck(mode == PROC); (void) time(&now); ! tm = gmtime(&now); if (header.expdate[0]) addhist(" "); #ifdef USG --- 891,900 ----- is_invalid = ngfcheck(mode == PROC); (void) time(&now); ! #ifdef CHIST ! sprintf(expbuf, "%ld~%s\t", now, (header.expdate[0] ? header.expdate : "-")); ! addhist(expbuf); ! #else if (header.expdate[0]) addhist(" "); addhist(arpadate(&now)); *************** *** 860,872 tm = gmtime(&now); if (header.expdate[0]) addhist(" "); ! #ifdef USG ! sprintf(bfr,"%2.2d/%2.2d/%d %2.2d:%2.2d\t", ! #else /* !USG */ ! sprintf(bfr,"%02d/%02d/%d %02d:%02d\t", ! #endif /* !USG */ ! tm->tm_mon+1, tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_year,tm->tm_hour, tm->tm_min); ! addhist(bfr); log("%s %s ng %s subj '%s' from %s", spool_news != DONT_SPOOL ? "queued" : (mode==PROC ? "received" : "posted"), header.ident, header.nbuf, header.title, header.from); --- 897,905 ----- #else if (header.expdate[0]) addhist(" "); ! addhist(arpadate(&now)); ! addhist("\t"); ! #endif log("%s %s ng %s subj '%s' from %s", spool_news != DONT_SPOOL ? "queued" : (mode==PROC ? "received" : "posted"), header.ident, header.nbuf, header.title, header.from);