weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (10/31/89)
Here is patch #40 to rn version 4.3, which many people don't seem to
have. (It was sent out in early 1987, but many FTP sites still have
rn patched to level 39.) It is a very simple patch.
Note that the patch for one of the files, ngdata.c, conflicts with the
patch for that file in the "rrnpatches" of NNTP, so if you use rrn,
you will have to fix this by hand. Also, the file "rrn.39.tar.Z" on
many hosts is based on an out-of-date version of the NNTP sources, so
you should not use it if you want to build an up-to-date rrn.
System: rn version 4.3
Patch #: 40
Priority: HIGH
Subject: moderated groups work differently now
From: lwall@sdcrdcf (Larry Wall)
Description:
As part of the newsgroup renaming scheme, moderated groups will no
longer be of the form mod.*. In order that users know when they
are in a moderated group, rn should say whether a given group
is moderated.
Additionally, the code in Pnews to handle moderated groups is now
obsolete, since inews handles it.
Fix: To fix Pnews to be compatible with 2.11 inews, just remove your
/usr/lib/news/moderators file, or equivalent, if you have one.
If you haven't installed 2.11 yet, leave your moderators file there
until you install 2.11, which will be soon. (!!!!)
To fix rn, install the following patches and recompile.
From rn, say "| patch -d DIR", where DIR is your rn source directory.
Outside of rn, say "cd DIR; patch <thisarticle". If you don't have
the patch program, apply the following by hand, or get patch.
If patch indicates that patchlevel is the wrong version, you may need
to apply one or more previous patches, or the patch may already
have been applied. See the patchlevel file to find out what has or
has not been applied. In any event, don't continue with the patch.
If you are missing previous patches they can be obtained from me:
Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall
If you send a mail message of the following form it will greatly speed
processing:
Subject: Command
@SH mailpatch PATH rn 4.3 LIST
^
notice the c
where PATH is a return path FROM ME TO YOU in bang notation, and LIST
is a list of one or more patches you need, separated by spaces, commas
and/or hyphens. Saying n- will give you everything from n on up.
Index: patchlevel
Prereq: 39
1c1
< Patch #: 39
---
> Patch #: 40
Index: art.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1026463 Mon Jan 26 16:50:34 1987
--- art.c Mon Jan 26 16:37:40 1987
***************
*** 25,30
#include "common.h"
#include "rn.h"
#include "ngstuff.h"
#include "head.h"
#include "cheat.h"
#include "help.h"
--- 25,31 -----
#include "common.h"
#include "rn.h"
#include "ngstuff.h"
+ #include "ngdata.h"
#include "head.h"
#include "cheat.h"
#include "help.h"
***************
*** 161,166
#endif
if (htype[NGS_LINE].ht_flags & HT_HIDE)
printf(" in %s", ngname);
fputs(":\n",stdout) FLUSH;
}
start_header(art);
--- 162,168 -----
#endif
if (htype[NGS_LINE].ht_flags & HT_HIDE)
printf(" in %s", ngname);
+ fputs(moderated,stdout);
fputs(":\n",stdout) FLUSH;
}
start_header(art);
Index: ngdata.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1026442 Mon Jan 26 16:49:41 1987
--- ngdata.c Mon Jan 26 16:43:23 1987
***************
*** 17,22
#include "intrp.h"
#include "final.h"
#include "rcln.h"
#include "INTERN.h"
#include "ngdata.h"
--- 17,23 -----
#include "intrp.h"
#include "final.h"
#include "rcln.h"
+ #include "util.h"
#include "INTERN.h"
#include "ngdata.h"
***************
*** 89,94
#else
abs1st = tmp;
#endif
}
#endif
return atol(tmpbuf+len+1);
--- 90,102 -----
#else
abs1st = tmp;
#endif
+ if (!in_ng) {
+ for (s++; isdigit(*s); s++) ;
+ while (isspace(*s)) s++;
+ moderated = (!*s || *s == 'y'
+ ? nullstr
+ : getval("MODSTRING"," (moderated)") );
+ }
}
#endif
return atol(tmpbuf+len+1);
Index: ngdata.h
*** /tmp/,RCSt1026500 Mon Jan 26 16:51:29 1987
--- ngdata.h Mon Jan 26 16:25:11 1987
***************
*** 21,26
# endif
#endif
void ngdata_init();
ART_NUM getngsize();
--- 21,27 -----
# endif
#endif
+ EXT char *moderated;
void ngdata_init();
ART_NUM getngsize();
### End of Patch 40 ###
--
Joe Weening Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University