From: wusel@hactar.hanse.de (Kai 'wusel' Siering)
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 14:54:38 +0100
Organization: Villa Straylight, Hamburg, FRG
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Reply-To: "Kai 'wusel' Siering" <wusel@hactar.hanse.de>
Subject: Re: Cnews?  Help!
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In article <y2uKr*xS2@crpi.UUCP>, joel@crpi.UUCP (Joel C. Justen) writes:

% > Otherwise, find out what the .next files should have and execute
% > another script after you do UNBATCHing which fixes those files.
%
% I also found this really annoying, but finally realized that if a newsreader
% wasn't going to support a far superior format (ie CNews with active and
% news article database) I wasn't going to use it.  I since use ARN as my
% newsreader of choice..

=;->

% I might be coaxed into writing a small fix to relaynews which will update
% .next files for those who want it.  Shouldn't be very hard to do as all the
% .next file contains is the number of the next available file number in the
% directory.

     Hmm, I'd  appreciate  not  to hack relaynews (as it's not it's fault -
relaynews  already  maintains  an  active  file, so make the newsreader use
it!);  a  simple  (AREXX-) script (or, for the sake of speed, a C-programm)
that  parses  the active file and writes the second value of each line into
the appropriate .next-file should do ...

[...]
% Also, this could be something wrong with your POSTNEWS string in your
% newsreader.  Mine is
%
% SENDNEWS    relaynews <%s -i ; %s
%
% This causes the article to be placed in it's correct directory (in the
% case of this article UUNews:alt/sys/amiga/uucp/1178.  A file is created
% in my uunews:out.going/coplex (my feed site) called togo. This file
% contains the string "UUNews:alt/sys/amiga/uucp/1178 5770".  The batch
% program reads this togo file and creates an entry that is batched to
% the feed site.

Well, I'd suggest using `-r -s' instead of `-i', compare uuman:relaynews.man:
---------------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
[...]
     1m-d22m turns on debugging of 1mf22miling, 1mh22meaders, 1ml22mocking, 1mm22matching,
     1mt22mransmission.    1m-r22m   redirects   stdout   and   stderr   to
     1m/usr/lib/news/log22m and  1m/usr/lib/news/errlog22m.   1m-i22m  redirects
     stdout  only to 1m/usr/lib/news/log22m.  1m-n22m enables ``NNTP mode''
     in which history  entries  are  generated  as  articles  are
     rejected.   1m-s22m makes discarding an article a serious matter,
     justifying a  non-zero  exit  status  (for  the  benefit  of
     4minews24m).   1m-x22m excludes 4mexcluded24m-4msite24m from the list of netnews
     neighbours to receive article(s).
[...]
--------------------------------------->8---------------------------------------

Regards,
			kai

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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 23:18:03 MDT
From: wuth@castrov.cuc.ab.ca (Brett Wuth)
Subject: Re: bms_err not used in BMS?
Newsgroups: alt.sys.amiga.uucp