beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie) (07/20/88)
could some kind soul mail me the patches to get the news to work under microport System V/AT 2.2? I have most of it working but vnews keeps dumping core. Thanx beattie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Beattie 11525 Hickory Cluster Reston, VA. 22090 (703)471-7552 ...uunet!visenix!beattie
trevor@trevan.UUCP (trevor) (07/25/88)
In article <175@visenix.UUCP>, beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie) writes: > could some kind soul mail me the patches to get > the news to work under microport System V/AT 2.2? > > I have most of it working but vnews keeps dumping core. I have found 2 bugs in my news 2.11 running on microport 286: 1 Pathinit.c has some uninitialised pointers, in particular PATHSYSNAME which results in a memory error when expire calls hread in header.c. It falls over at the label strip:. 2 Readnews and Vnews will dump core if there are a large number of newsgroups on the newsgroups line The first I cured by initializing the char pointers in pathinit to null strings. I have not been able to track down the cause of the other problem but what I do is to use vnews with each newsgroup in turn until the offending one is found. Then I look through the articals with vi and edit the newsgroup lines which are very long. I suspect there is a buffer which is not long enough for these monstrosities.