drew@geac.UUCP (Drew Sullivan) (12/21/87)
On some sites, with the upgrade of news to 2.10.3 or 2.11, rn's Xref
facility broke. The culperate appears to be a change in the Xref format.
I don't remember what the old Xref format was, but the new format doesn't have
any commas. Rn assumed that the Xref must have a comma and if not, it wasn't
an Xref line. Note this only applies if rn is compiled with DBM defined.
There may be similar problems in the non-DBM version but I didn't look at
that code closely enough to tell other than it assumes that it has tabs,
which the new Xref line doesn't (no patch for that provided [sorry]).
-- Drew Sullivan <drew@lethe.uucp>
*** rn/bits.c.orig Tue Mar 24 16:44:00 1987
--- rn/bits.c Sat Dec 19 19:11:46 1987
***************
*** 326,331
#ifdef DBM
rver_buf = fetchlines(artnum,NGS_LINE);
/* get Newsgroups */
! if (!index(rver_buf,',')) /* if no comma, no Xref! */
! return 0;
if (hist_file == Nullfp) { /* Init. file accesses */
--- 326,333 -----
#ifdef DBM
rver_buf = fetchlines(artnum,NGS_LINE);
/* get Newsgroups */
! #if OLD_STYLE_XREF
! if (!index(rver_buf,',')) /* if no comma, no Xref! */
! return 0; /* and not true in B-News 2.11 */
! #endif /* OLD_STYLE_XREF */ /* -- drew@lethe.uucp */
if (hist_file == Nullfp) { /* Init. file accesses */
--
-- Drew Sullivan <drew@lethe.uucp>