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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:45:06 -0500
Message-Id: <199802092145.QAA01529@kanga.eecs.umich.edu>
From: <steveh@eecs.umich.edu>
Subject: trn: PATCH: fix for "Warning! Somebody reset <newsgroup>--assuming nothing read."
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
X-Mailer: bug 3.1.0
Package: trn
Version: 3.6-9.1
Received from a colleague of mine, Mike Hucka <hucka@eecs.umich.edu>:
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Users complain about encountering errors like this from libc6 trn 3.6
on a Debian Linux system (running hamm):
Warning! Somebody reset sci.answers--assuming nothing read.
Checking out your .newsrc -- hang on a second...
Warning! Somebody reset comp.ai.genetic--assuming nothing read.
Warning! Somebody reset comp.dcom.cell-relay--assuming nothing read.
This happens when they move between newsgroups. It happens erratically, but
usually in every newsreading session.
An apparent side-effect of this problem for some people is that their .newsrc
file then ends up with entries like
comp.os.linux.misc:
1-213671,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,214204214342214196214158214153214138215158214639214043213961213885213840213719213711213755,214111,214689,214694,214699,2
Here's the patch:
diff -u rcln.c.orig rcln.c
--- rcln.c.orig Mon Feb 9 04:34:41 1998
+++ rcln.c Mon Feb 9 04:35:11 1998
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
register char *s, *t, *maxt = Nullch;
ART_NUM min = 0, max = -1, lastnum = 0;
char *mbuf;
- bool morenum;
+ bool_int morenum;
if (!artnum)
return 0;
This patch was sent to me by Wayne Ling
<wling@shipwreck.sympatico.ca>, who in turn got it off the net.
"Jan D." <Jan.Djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, who reposted the patch on the
net, wrote: "I think the problem was that isdigit returned a number
that didn't fit into a char."
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