Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News batcher goes insane - film at eleven
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.152412.4811@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 15:24:12 GMT
References: <1991Jun26.035746.14008@alembic.acs.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun26.035746.14008@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
>Twice now, I've run into a situation where the C News batcher
>manages to produce news batches containing no news. 

Yup, known problem.  Tricky to solve within the structure of the existing
batcher, at least if you don't want to introduce substantial overhead into
the normal (everything-flowing-fine) case.  It *is* on the to-be-fixed list,
however, and that may happen as part of a major overhaul to the batcher.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
