I can confirm this bug exists also when a line of 28 characters is not the first in .newsrc and/or relates to an unsubscribed newsgroup. -- Regards, | /^^^\ Yury | (| , , |) | | * | E-mail: yury.burkatovsky at telrad dot co dot il | \_-_/ On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Joe Weening wrote: > I think I've found a bug in trn 4.0-test76. When I run "trn -c", and > the .newsrc file contains a line of length exactly 28 characters, then > some memory allocation problem causes .newsrc to be replaced with a > file that contains garbage text. For example, if my .newsrc contains > the following lines (the first has length 28): > > comp.ai.neural-nets: 1-53695 > sci.agriculture.fruit: 1-3354 > rec.puzzles: 1-155831 > > and I run "trn -c", then .newsrc is replaced with the lines: > > /u/jweening/.rnlast:18650 > /u/jweening/.rnlast > /u/jweening:.rnlast > > A workaround I've found is to take out the following portion of > rcstuff.c (beginning on line 530: > > if (checkflag) /* no extra mallocs for -c */ > np->rcline = some_buf; > else > > Here is the configuration of the trn that I'm using: > > Trn version: 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001). > Configured for NNTP (plus individual local access). ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390
