edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) (06/13/91)
Archive-name: news/nntp/nestor/1991-06-12
Archive: archive.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/UNIX/nestor.tar.Z [131.211.80.5]
Original-posting-by: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Original-subject: nestor patch #02 (high priority) Part 01/01
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
Here is a SHARred high-priority patch for the ``nestor'' program. It
fixes a couple of bugs (one serious) and has some cosmetic improvements.
If you are currently using nestor 1.0PL1 please apply this patch to
upgrade from 1.0PL1 to 1.0PL2. If you're unfamiliar with nestor or
running a pre-1.0PL1 version of nestor, I encourage you to pickup a
complete new release from our archive -- see details below.
We, Computer Science department, Utrecht University, are running an
anonymous FTP server on one of our systems. In addition to the FTP
service we're also running a mail server, for those of you without
direct Internet access.
--> How to get 'nestor' via anonymous FTP:
Site: archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
Login: "anonymous" or "ftp"
Password: your own email address (you@your_domain)
File: UNIX/nestor.tar.Z
--> How to get 'nestor' via e-mail from our mail-server:
NOTE: In the following I have assumed that your mail address is
"fred_flintstone@stone.age.edu"; of course you must substitute
your own address for this.
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Send the following message to
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or the old-fashioned path alternative
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path fred_flintstone@stone.age.edu (SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
send UNIX/nestor.tar.Z
end
The path command can be deleted if we receive a valid from address in your
message. If this is the first time you use our mail server, we suggest you
first issue the request:
send HELP
A complete "ls-lR" listing of the archive is kept in the top-level
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That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service
and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please).
X*** ../1.0PL1/Changes Mon Jun 3 15:00:00 1991
X--- Changes Wed Jun 12 11:30:14 1991
X***************
X*** 60,62 ****
X--- 60,106 ----
X From: EHK
X Added: Patch #1 [nestor.c scan.c]
X
X+
X+ Nestor -- 1.0 PL2
X+ =================
X+ Patch #2 was posted in "news.software.nntp" and "comp.sources.bugs" on
X+ June 12, 1991.
X+
X+ Topic: Typo in the manual page and change in presentation of usage information
X+ From: Bart Muyzer <bartm@cv.ruu.nl>
X+ Added: Patch #2 [nestor.1 nestor.c]
X+
X+ Topic: Also install the manual page during a `make install'
X+ From: Bart Muyzer <bartm@cv.ruu.nl>
X+ Added: Patch #2 [Makefile README]
X+
X+ Topic: nestor memory/segmentation faults on certain input lines
X+ From: Nike Horton <horton@cse.ogi.edu>
X+ Added: Patch #2 [nestor.h scan.c]
X+
X+ Topic: current time was always reported as 'statistics end date'
X+ From: EHK [on request from Ian Dickinson <vato@warwick.ac.uk>]
X+ Added: Patch #2 [nestor.h nestor.c]
X+
X+ Even on old logfiles, the current time was reported as end time
X+ of the statistics -- this is not what you want. So, at EOF we
X+ want to remember the last nntp/nntpxmit syslog entry. Since I
X+ don't want to strcpy() every entry, I decided to use two
X+ alternating buffers while reading the syslog file. This makes
X+ sure that we always still have the last entry of interest at EOF.
X+
X+ Topic: 'nntplink' not fully supported -- now documented
X+ From: EHK [on report by John Palkovic <palkovic@linac.fnal.gov>]
X+ Added: Patch #2 [nestor.1]
X+
X+ Besides 'nntpxmit', there's another program to take care of
X+ Usenet news transmissions: NNTPLINK. Although nestor correctly
X+ picks up the statistics that are logged by 'nntplink', verbose
X+ mode ('-v') will show that it doesn't like many of the additional
X+ 'nntplink' log entries. This is now documented in the manual page
X+ in the "CAVEATS" section.
X+ I hope to better support 'nntplink' in future versions, but I
X+ have to dig into 'nntplink' first in order to find out its
X+ perculiarities.
X+
[remainder of patches deleted. --Ed]
-- comp.archives file verification
archive.cs.ruu.nl
-rw-r--r-- 1 edwin archive 26855 Jun 12 09:58 /pub/UNIX/nestor.tar.Z
found nestor ok
archive.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/UNIX/nestor.tar.Z