2.4.0b3 won't accept NEWGROUPS commands without the following patch.
I'm displaying poor netiquette by including a unified diff in the body of
this message, so that you are encouraged to apply it by hand and check
its logic. I haven't given it a good thrashing.
--- newgroups.c.orig Tue Apr 18 09:18:11 2000
+++ newgroups.c Tue Apr 18 11:07:04 2000
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@
char dist[128]="";
int i;
int t[4];
- char arg1[9];
+ char arg1[10];
int len;
int yr;
memset(d, 0, sizeof d);
- if (sscanf(args, "%*s %8s %6s %3s <%127s>", arg1, d+4, gmt, dist)<2)
+ if (sscanf(args, "%*s %9s %6s %3s <%127s>", arg1, d+4, gmt, dist)<2)
{
bad:
emitrn("501 [yy]yymmdd hhmmss [\"GMT\"] [<distributions>]");
@@ -39,15 +39,15 @@
len = strlen(arg1);
if (len < 6 || atoi(arg1) == 0)
goto bad;
- strncpy(arg1+len-4, d, 4);
+ strncpy(d, arg1+len-4, 4);
for (i=0; i<4; i++)
if ((t[i]=c2i(d+2*i))==-1)
goto bad;
/* deal with y2k bugged readers */
- arg1[len-4] = '0';
+ arg1[len-4] = 0;
yr = atoi(arg1);
- if (yr>19100)
- yr-=1900;
+ if (yr>=19100)
+ yr-=19000;
if (yr>1900)
yr-=1900;
if (yr <70)
--
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Andrew Donkin Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
