HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dem@meaddata.com (David Myers)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: not storing and forwarding with INN
Date: 21 Dec 1992 13:12:54 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
NNTP-Posting-Host: devil.meaddata.com

>   Is there a way to do this with INN?  My understanding is that articles
>   for newsgroups not present in the active file are simply discarded.

   This is the default behavior, but all you have to do is change a
configuration parameter when building INN to make it behave like C
News in this respect.
--
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Mead Data Central           No news is             Fabrication Systems
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Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: len@netsys.com (Len Rose)
Subject: C News corrupting active file
Summary: Cnews seems to be munching active file
Keywords: SunOs Cnews active
Organization: Netsys Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:33:27 GMT


Has anyone else experienced a problem with Cnews constantly
corrupting the active file? It's usually inserting a tilde
character somewhere in a random manner.. I've just started
to look into the problem, so little detail is provided here.
My active file contains about 4400 newsgroups.. 

Thanks for any useful suggestions..

Len


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From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: This UUCP site runs INN (was What is the advantage of INN over CNews?)
Date: 21 Dec 1992 11:07:45 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <1992Dec18.135727.4601@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM> lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly) writes:
>Does innd have to be running continuously, or can it be run on an
>as-required basis from inetd?
If you do not need to use NNTP for newsreaders, you can run it out
of inetd, sort of.  It will take a bit of finessing (e.g., adding "-n"
to the expire invocation in news.daily), but it should probably work.
It's not intended to be run that way, however, so I won't feel obligated
to answer any questions about such a set-up. :-)

>Aside from a socket emulation library, what does INN require
>(does it require BSD-hacked signal(3) calls, e.g.)?
Non-blocking sockets.  Ability to do malloc(n*1024) where "n" > 64.
Ability to select on sockets which have been dup'd across an exec.  As for
signals, INN uses the simplest and safest signal-handling possible:  set
global flag, reset handler, and return.  Other then that I haven't heard
of any real portability issues.
	/r$
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp,news.software.readers
From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Subject: Re: INN newbie has innd, nnrpd, trn interaction questions
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:56:59 GMT

In <1992Dec23.054335.3323@spectrum.CMC.COM> lars@cmc.com (Lars Poulsen) writes:
>I had hoped that I could just pull INN and experiment with INND as a
>replacement for nntpd on a week-end without messing up the entire system
>and needing to reset the news spool.
This works perfectly fine.

The only warning I know to give you is that if you are not using C News you
might have to fiddle with history files and dbm/dbz databases a bit.
	/r$
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: This UUCP site runs INN
Date: 21 Dec 1992 11:22:30 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <BzHxws.187@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>INN wants to keep the entire history file in memory, all the time.
As Tom said, this is not the text history file, but the .pag file which is
about 15% the size of the text file.  As Rob said, you can just comment
out the "dbzincore(1)" line in innd/his.c if you want.  As Takashiro said,
in INN1.3 this will become more configurable.

If you have multiple fast incoming feeds, you want the database incore.
Surprisingly, the penalty is not in memory use, but in updating it after
recieving articles.  I have a "write-through" patch from Rob that will be
in 1.3 that makes big speed-ups.  Jim posted a similar patch here.

Yours in summation,
	/r$
Xref: sparky news.software.b:3634 news.software.nntp:1722
From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN placing messages in junk
Date: 28 Dec 1992 10:47:49 -0500
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net

In <1hc15hINN4ao@rs6000.bham.ac.uk> G.Simpson@bham.ac.uk writes:
>Is there any way of stopping junk getting filled up into the junk group 
>with INN. I seem to be getting all the news i dont want there: for
>example, my newsfeeds file
>ME\
>	:*.*,!foo.bar::
This is not doing what you want.  The subscription list in the ME entry
has *absolutely nothing* to do with what newsgroups your site wants.  Please
re-read doc/newsfeeds.5 more carefully.  There is only one place that lists
the newsgroups that you want to receive:  the active file.

>The messages from group foo.bar appear in the junk file. However, another
>group, say foo.foo may not exist on my system (yet), and i want to see those
>messages in junk, not those from foo.bar which i know i dont want.
You cannot do this.  If you want a newsgroup, put it in the active file.
If you don't want a newsgroup, then remove it from the active file.  If
you want a group filed in junk, use the x or = flags in the active file
entry.

>Glyn Simpson, Systems Officer,
That is a very intersting title -- first time I've ever seen one like it.
	/r$
Xref: sparky news.software.b:3635 news.software.nntp:1723
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 28 Dec 1992 11:44:24 EST
From: John Grover <JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: INN placing messages in junk
Distribution: inet

In article <1hn7j6INNpva@rodan.UU.NET>, rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz) says:
>
>In <1hc15hINN4ao@rs6000.bham.ac.uk> G.Simpson@bham.ac.uk writes:
>>The messages from group foo.bar appear in the junk file. However, another
>>group, say foo.foo may not exist on my system (yet), and i want to see those
>>messages in junk, not those from foo.bar which i know i dont want.
>You cannot do this.  If you want a newsgroup, put it in the active file.
>If you don't want a newsgroup, then remove it from the active file.  If
>you want a group filed in junk, use the x or = flags in the active file
>entry.

  I takes a certain amount of chutzpah to disagree with the author,
  but Rich, I respectfully disagree. On my system, I get unwanted
  groups (that is groups not in the active file) in junk. Why? I
  think because I set the WANT_TRASH variable in config.data to
  DO. I'm not sure what would happen if I had groups with a 4th
  field of 'x' in the active file.

johngrover

--------------------------------------------------------------------
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University of Maine                             -- Denzel Washington
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:18:31 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <BzuC3B.LEz@ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
>   >-v has nothing to do with it.  
>
>-v has eveything to do with it. Here are the lines from the end of doexpire:
>
>	if test -s /tmp/doex$$
>	then
>		(echo 'expire problems:' ; cat /tmp/doex$$ ) | mail "$NEWSMASTER"
>		rm -f /tmp/doex$$
>		exit 1
>	fi
>	rm -f /tmp/doex$$ $NEWSCTL/history.o
>	exit 0
> ...
>This is the doexpire from the nov release, so perhaps this is a change
>from earlier versions.

Uh, what do you mean, "the nov release"???  There was no November release.
The code above does not appear in *any* C News release we have ever shipped.
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Subject: Re: getdate.y and 1999
Organization: Bush in 92 ? NOT!
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:49:05 GMT

Jay Maynard (jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec30.174457.29401@nntpserver.chevron.com> hdnea@usho92.hou281.chevron.com (David Neal) writes:
: >I was mucking around with getdate, and noticed
: >it won't take dates > 1999. Anyone know why? I hate to
: >just patch it and blow its leap year handling all to hell.

: Actually, if it's using a year mod 4 leap year algorithm, it'll do fine for
: 2000 - as 2000 is a leap year. 2100, on the other hand, may be a problem...

Yes.  Even though year 2000 is divisible by 100 (so it wouldn't ordinarily
be a leap year), it's divisible by 400, so it is a leap year after all.
So, 2000 can be treated just like 1992, 1996, and 2004.

The source code (370 assembler) for the Snobat 1.9 implementation of
Snobol4 has a note to the effect "This code will work until January 1,
2100.  If you're still using it then, the joke's on you".

--
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
doug@cc.ysu.edu	   doug@ysub.bitnet	<internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug

cat core | uuencode bunny.dropping | mail jp@tygra.michigan.com
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
From: doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Subject: Whatever happened to news.software.inn ?
Organization: Bush in 92 ? NOT!
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:37:49 GMT

Whatever happened to news.software.inn ?  I saw a RFD on it, and it van-
ished.

Did the outcome of the RFD conclude not to go to a vote ?

Did it just fizzle out ?

Did the proposer get swamped with work and not get to pursue it further ?

Curious minds want to know (although I admit, it'll be one more newsgroup
to subscribe to... my new news-server arrives tomorrow (12/22), and I'm 
still torn between C-News and INN on it...)
--
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
doug@cc.ysu.edu	   doug@ysub.bitnet	<internet>!cc.ysu.edu!doug

cat core | uuencode bunny.dropping | mail jp@tygra.michigan.com
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn
From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: INN  vs  subject-line-based newsreaders looking for `INN'
Organization: Twin Sun, Inc
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:31:48 GMT

The NN newsreader has a handy `nngrab' command that finds all articles
whose subject line contains a given string.  E.g. `nngrab -c RCS' finds
all articles mentioning RCS.  Unfortunately, `nngrab -c INN' finds a
lot of noise because of cancel messages, e.g.:

 a Wade Blomgren     1  >cancel <1hss24INNnl7@network.ucsd.edu>
 b Ruiz Alejandro    1  >cmsg cancel <1hk9a2INN99q@phakt.usc.edu>
 c Gerald Edgar      6  >>cmsg cancel <1hn75kINN436@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
 d C Schittel        0  >cmsg cancel <1hprl7INNmbj@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
 [... many other cancel messages omitted ...]
 y.Rich Salz         9  >>INN newbie has innd, nnrpd, trn interaction questions
 [... that was the first useful article ...]

Perhaps INN could be changed so that it doesn't put the string `INN' in
its Message-IDs; this would make it easier for subject-line-based
newsreaders to find out more about INN itself.  No doubt NN experts
can suggest an NN-specific workaround for this problem, but the whole
point is to make things easier for newcomers.

Besides, if we uniformly substitute something short like `.' for `INN'
in Message-IDs, just think of all the bytes we'll save!
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Using INN's nnrpd and reference nntpd both?
Date: 3 Jan 1993 16:36:03 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: abacus.warren.mentorg.com

In <C06y92.Anv@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>I'm about to switch my News system from C news to INN, but for
>one particular newsreader I'd like to continue using the reference
>nntpd for a while (a locally modified version of tin).  I'm thinking
>that I should be able to just have the nntpd listen on a different
>port and make the necessary modification to the reader to connect
>to that port, thus using both, INN's nnrpd and the nntpd.  Anybody
>see any reason why that might not be a good idea?  Thanks.

From the Install.ms doc, which is included with the
INN package.

2.  Standard NNTP daemon

     You can use the ``standard'' nntpd server.  You  should
only  have  to do this if you have hosts that do both random
newsreading and bulk transfer.

     Make sure that you configure nntpd so that it is  using
DBZ,  and  have  it  feed  each individual article to inews;
don't use the ``batched input'' option.  It should  also  be
set up so that it acts as if it is running under inetd.  You
should also make sure that inetd does nothing with the  NNTP
port, number 119.


-- 
Tom Limoncelli -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work) -- tal@plts.uucp (play)

Unix is a trademark of, WHATT????
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne)
Subject: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o
Organization: ScotSoft Research
	<Bzo27w.2Lv@ssr.com> <BzqItJ.L16@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:30:47 GMT

In article <BzqItJ.L16@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

   >In article <Bzo27w.2Lv@ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
   >>Unless you use the -v flag to get expire statistics...
   >-v has nothing to do with it.  

-v has eveything to do with it. Here are the lines from the end of doexpire:

	if test -s /tmp/doex$$
	then
		(echo 'expire problems:' ; cat /tmp/doex$$ ) | mail "$NEWSMASTER"
		rm -f /tmp/doex$$
		exit 1
	fi
	rm -f /tmp/doex$$ $NEWSCTL/history.o
	exit 0

If one passes the -v flag to doexpire, the /tmp/doex$$ will not be a
non-zero size, and the exit 1 will be performed, and the history.o
file will not be removed. It's the same code that causes people to
keep asking you how to fix the 'expire problems' that -v
causes....

This is the doexpire from the nov release, so perhaps this is a change
from earlier versions.
From: jpm@cs.hut.fi (Jussi-Pekka Mantere)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: newsoverview & doexpire (Was: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o)
Date: 26 Dec 92 13:54:51 GMT
	<Bzo27w.2Lv@ssr.com> <BzqItJ.L16@zoo.toronto.edu> <BzuC3B.LEz@ssr.com>
	<Bzus6z.9FF@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
NNTP-Posting-Host: cardhu.cs.hut.fi
In-reply-to: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:18:31 GMT

Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> writes:

   Uh, what do you mean, "the nov release"???

Hmmmm... The "newsoverview" stuff by Geoff Collyer, usually referred
to as "nov" (sic), available as world.std.com:pub/src/news/nov.dist.tar.Z.
The doexpire in there has the code mentioned in it.

Cheers,

Jussi-Pekka Mantere
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is the performance release stable?
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:08:08 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1992Dec22.144934.6912@coplex.com> dean@coplex.com (Dean Brooks) writes:
>...about the performance release of Cnews:
>
>   1)  I vaugely remember the first performance-release patch
>	stating that it was the first "part" of the performance
>	release and that the second part would come a couple of
>	months later.
>    
>       Did this second "part" ever get released?

I think your memory is playing tricks on you... :-)  The Performance Release
was never a two-parter.  It was meant as an intermediate step to what we've
been calling the Cleanup Release, which hasn't happened yet.

>   2)  Is the current performance release of Cnews as stable as
>       the version I am now running?  (i.e. should I upgrade?)

There has been no re-release of the Performance Release (I've talked about
doing one, but haven't found the time yet).  The software is stable and
works well, but there are some rough edges in building and installation.
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: What is the advantage of INN over CNews?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:08:57 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1

In news.software.b, article <BzMw3p.2AK@techbook.com>,
  jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
> 
> It's 3 years later and I'm running the Peformance Release.  I've got
> three times as many groups as I did then, and I'd bet the volume in each
> group is close to triple that of 3 years ago.  expire runs pretty nicely,
> but every so often I have to run "mkhistory" and that's a nightmare.  
> INN's "makehistory" runs about 8 times faster.  INN integrates the

It also has an update mode -- the rest of your news system can run as always
while makehistory mangles every article and then feeds any missing history
lines into INN. (And no, I don't like that feature _just_ because I wrote
the patch for it, back when INN was in beta. ;-)

> I'm convinced that aliens "walk" among us.  Nobody could have real jobs,
> plus write the kind of code that Geoff does or post as many well-written 
> messages as Henry does ...
> 
I suspect they have a time machine hidden in their basement somewhere,
to grab the 36-hour days the rest of us only dream about.

-- 
Now this is going to be your first day on a strange new planet, so I want you
all wrapped up snug and warm, and no playing with any naughty bug-eyed monsters.
-- 
Matthias Urlichs  --  urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de   /(o\
Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany  --  +49-721-9612521     \o)/
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: getdate.y and 1999
Date: 30 Dec 1992 18:04:12 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Dec30.174457.29401@nntpserver.chevron.com> hdnea@usho92.hou281.chevron.com (David Neal) writes:
>I was mucking around with getdate, and noticed
>it won't take dates > 1999. Anyone know why? I hate to
>just patch it and blow its leap year handling all to hell.

Actually, if it's using a year mod 4 leap year algorithm, it'll do fine for
2000 - as 2000 is a leap year. 2100, on the other hand, may be a problem...
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
Xref: sparky news.software.b:3603 news.software.nntp:1712
From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: Using INN's nnrpd and reference nntpd both?
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:00:38 GMT

I'm about to switch my News system from C news to INN, but for
one particular newsreader I'd like to continue using the reference
nntpd for a while (a locally modified version of tin).  I'm thinking
that I should be able to just have the nntpd listen on a different
port and make the necessary modification to the reader to connect
to that port, thus using both, INN's nnrpd and the nntpd.  Anybody
see any reason why that might not be a good idea?  Thanks.

--
Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: expire: wrong number of fields in history
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:03:15 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1992Dec18.195938.27336@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>... edited the history file to fix it.  I
>think I could have done that earlier at no greater risk.  The problem
>is I don't know what risk I was taking!  It seems to have worked but
>I don't know for sure yet.

Actually, you should have rebuilt the dbz database afterwards, since it
knows the offsets of entries in the history file.  Running expire would
suffice to look after that (although it's not the quickest way).
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.readers
From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: news overview database (nov) distribution
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:52:20 GMT

Anybody who has picked up nov.dist.tar.Z from world.std.com and is using
it seriously may want to retrieve a current copy of it.  I've added some
minor extensions and fixed some small bugs over the past few weeks.
(More [compatible] improvements are likely: I'd like to deal promptly
with cancels and will probably be rewriting a few scripts for greater
speed.)  I'm about to take off for two weeks in the great white north, so
this distribution shouldn't change for the next two weeks.  See you all
in January.
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group
From: tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Trouble getting INN to forward posts...
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:17:52 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: milk.warren.mentorg.com

In <1h0ubqINN9hs@cbl.umd.edu> root@cbl.umd.edu (System Administrator) writes:

>Here's the situation: I set up INN on our news server machine and it's
>running ok.  News is coming in and I can post.  I exported the news
>spool to a workstation, and I can read news fine on the workstation,
>as well as post.  Problem is, my posts never get propagated past the
>news server.  Any ideas?

Testing and debugging posting facilities is covered in the INN FAQ
that I just posted.  I don't directly cover the problem you mentioned,
but reading the FAQ might give you some hints

What does the path line of the posted message say?  (use "inews -h -D")

Quote------------------------------------

Look at the posted message in the news spool (if you post a message to
nj.test, "cd /var/spool/news/nj/test" and cat the highest numbered file
you see).  If your site name is listed multiple times in the "Path:"
header, put your server's name on the "pathhost:" line of
"inn.conf" and recompile INN with "INEWS_PATH" set to
"DONT".  (I don't know why that isn't the default!)

EndQuote---------------------------------

Tom
-- 
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Reality is stranger than fiction #943247:  The IRS granted
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Newsgroups: news.software.b
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: "Alias" file in C news
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:59:14 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <C0952p.1rp@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
>Question: does C news use the "alias" file anymore?

No.  It never has.  (C News is a from-scratch reimplementation, not a
variant of B News.)
-- 
"God willing... we shall return."       | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
       -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
From: hdnea@usho92.hou281.chevron.com (David Neal)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: getdate.y and 1999
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:44:57 GMT
Organization: Chevron


I was mucking around with getdate, and noticed
it won't take dates > 1999. Anyone know why? I hate to
just patch it and blow its leap year handling all to hell.


-- 
David Neal -- hdnea@hou281.chevron.com 

My processes aren't dead! They're only resource impaired!
Computationally challenged!