[4274] in SIPB bug reports
Fixed Pnews/Rn problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Fri Nov 26 22:25:41 1993
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 22:24:21 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, usenet@MIT.EDU, wesommer@MIT.EDU, marthag@MIT.EDU,
raek@MIT.EDU, sjc@MIT.EDU, jroth@MIT.EDU, thanost@MIT.EDU
To those of you who submitted bug reports:
I believe the Pnews/rn problems with garbage being printed to the screen
have been fixed. Due to the large number of reports, I have done an
emergency release of the sipb volume to make the fixed versions
available immediately. If you want to run the fixed versions, and
you are reading this message before about 11 PM Friday, you may have to
execute the command:
athena% fs checkvolumes
to insure that you get the fixed versions.
USENET and SIPB people:
I replaced the scripts Pnews, Rnmail, newsetup, newsgroups in the bin
directories on the Sun, VAX, RT, DECstation, and RS/6000 platforms.
They are all separate scripts, and may be different because of different
locations of programs, different behavior in echoing without newline,
etc. They come from the /mit/sipb/src/`machtype`/rrn build trees, and I
have tested them to some extent. Please do not replace these programs
unless you verify that a) they will work on all of the platforms and b)
they won't break rn. The rn/Pnews problems reported were caused by a
couple of scripts which were accidentally running RT binaries on the
DECstation.
If the output of the programs newsgroups and newsetup (which come from
the rn distribution) are not acceptable for the readers tin, trn, then
these readers should be modified to run their own special scripts from a
seperate directory under /mit/sipb/lib, say, /mit/sipb/lib/{trn,tin},
respectively. If there is any system-dependance in the scripts---and I
gaurantee there if you have not spent some time making it
otherwise---then the maintainers of these readers should create binary
directories /mit/sipb/lib/{trn,tin}/@sys or something equivalent and
install there. I see that this has been done for tin, but I have not
verified the the correct scripts are run on each platform. I don't know
about trn. It seems to run okay after what I've done, but I haven't
checked it very much.
-Calvin
