[6952] in SIPB bug reports
Re: xrn broken on SGIs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Aug 7 12:33:25 1998
To: Sergio Mertsching <mert@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 07 Aug 1998 12:33:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: Sergio Mertsching's message of "Fri, 07 Aug 1998 11:36:18 EDT"
<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Sergio Mertsching) writes:
> Hello. I'm getting the error:
>
> Input string too long, limit 200
>
> when trying to start xrn on the SGI Indy and O2 machines on athena. Is
> this a known problem? It seems to run fine on the Sun workstations.
> Please let me know when/if it's going to be fixed. Thanks!
xrn is probably confused by the presence of a (presumably
unsubscribed) group with a really long name like
alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt
in your .newsrc. If you remove the line mentioning it and either
always start xrn with the option "+fullNewsrc" or add the line
XRn*fullNewsrc: false
to your .Xresources, that problem should probably go away.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
