nelson@wrl.epi.com (Ken Nelson) (02/28/91)
What is the current version of Xrn? I am running 6.13. Are there any patches floating around? Has anybody figured out to make Xrn figure out the default distribution for an article you are posting. Currently my default is set to "world" posting, but for some DC area groups it should be DC, and for company internal groups it should be "epi". rn and postnews do this, so I thought their might be a patch floating around to Xrn that adds this feature. Thanks, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ken Nelson (nelson@wrl.epi.com) | No thoughts today, sorry. | | Computer Systems Manager | | | Entropic Research Laboratory | | | Washington, D.C. | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (02/28/91)
There are four versions of xrn in ~ftp/pub/xrn on shambhala.berkeley.edu: -rw-r--r-- 1 1244 wheel 274743 Aug 31 1990 xrn6-12-1.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 1244 wheel 287887 Sep 29 13:35 xrn6-13.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 1244 wheel 299592 Nov 17 16:02 xrn6-14.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 1244 wheel 260191 Dec 22 1989 xrn6-4.tar.Z The most recent version is xrn6-14.tar.Z, but I think it's a little bit buggy. Xrn 6.15 is due to be out very soon, I believe. As for determining default distributions, it shouldn't matter -- if a newsgroup is a local newsgroup, then it should only be distributed locally automatically. I suspect that postnews and rn figure out the distribution just by taking the first component of the newsgroup to which you are posting, which is a hack which shouldn't even work anymore, because it shouldn't be necessary as long as newsfeeds are configured properly, but it still works for for backward compatibility. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710