Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Think of this as a chance to educate. If you were teaching a math class in elementary school and a child asked how to add 2 + 2 would you tell them to get a calculator? The NNTP protocol is very simple and this only uses a few of it's commands. The code works on older FreeBSD, and on a modern Ubuntu system running the same version of Perl as on the newer FreeBSD. I have to thus assume the problem isn't the code, the problem is something inherent in how Perl is implemented on FreeBSD 8.X. I just don't know what it is.
That all depends on how you define "works"? The program 'readmsg' has some serious problems with incorrect regular expressions. And if you compile the programs with warnings enabled you will get a few messages.
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