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From: revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr)
Subject: Re: NNTPXMIT Problem reading the file of articles to send
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.030325.1664@uunet.uu.net>
Reply-To: revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr)
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
References: <1991Jun5.133033.24524@mach2.wlu.ca> <1991Jun5.172321.3359@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 03:03:25 GMT

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
} derwin@mach2.WLU.CA (Daryl Erwin) writes:
} >While trying to get NNTPXMIT to work yesterday, I found a problem
} >with nntpxmit.c trying to read the file of articles to send.  What is
} >wrong here....
} >   the file contains lines similar to
} >         /usr/spool/news/alt/test/1 435
} 
} Use the F flag, not the f flag, in your sys-file entries.  See news(5).

Seems odd to remind the author of features in his own code, but I
believe the n flag is better for nntp links (equivalent of FI in
bnews).  This is in all the current Cnews' and not just the time-
warped UUNET version right?
-- 
James Revell   sr uunet postmaster   <revell@uunet.uu.net>   /8^{~
